John Bright

1811 - 1889

About the Author

John Bright (1811-1889) was a Quaker and a Member of Parliament who was active with Richard Cobden in opposing the Corn Laws and the war against Russia in the Crimea.

In The Library:

• introduction: The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: From 1817-1882 (1881)
• author: Selected Speeches of the Rt. Hon. John Bright M.P. On Public Questions (1853)
• editor: Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, 2 vols. (1870)
• editor: Speeches on Questions of Public Policy. Vol. 1 (Free Trade and Finance) (1870)
• editor: Speeches on Questions of Public Policy. Vol. 2 (War, Peace, and Reform) (1870)

Quotations:

• John Bright on war as all the horrors, atrocities, crimes, and sufferings of which human nature on this globe is capable (1853) (27 March, 2012)
• John Bright calls British foreign policy “a gigantic system of (welfare) for the aristocracy” (1858) (10 December, 2012)