John Bright Quotes
The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.
Citations
Trevelyan, George Macaulay. The Life of John Bright. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913, p. 376.
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John Bright was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, one of the greatest orators of his generation and a promoter of free trade policies.