People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.

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• Joseph Hume:

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

• Joseph Hume:

  It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it t

• Joseph Hume:

  I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital

• Joseph Hume:

  I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the l

• Joseph Hume:

  I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to b

• Joseph Hume:

  What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady; and for this r

• Joseph Hume:

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

• Joseph Hume:

  With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and h

• Joseph Hume:

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

• Joseph Hume:

  Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.