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Joseph Hume Quotes

Scottish - Scientist | January 22, 1777 - February 20, 1855

It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country.

Opinion Long House Country Duty

I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.

Food Bad Class Over Monopoly Corn

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.

Her England Raw Materials Imports

At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed.

Moment Improvement People Present

So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced.

Plan Price Now Inconvenience Vague

I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.

Giving Agriculture Reason See I See

I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.

I Am Admit Fair Protection Peculiar

What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady; and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House.

House Now Farmers Reason Steady

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

Work Food People Us Give Unemployed

With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and happy, instead of our present situation in which so much distress exists - distress of our own producing.

Man Happy Present Situation Country

Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

Now Want Take Demand Other Refusal

In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.

Great Food Country Price British

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