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I Therefore Declare, That If You Wish Any Remission Of The Taxation Which Falls Upon The Homes Of The People Of England And Wales, You Can Only Find It By Reducing The Great Military Establishments, And Diminishing The Money Paid To Fighting Men In Time Of Peace.

I Hold All Idea Of Regulating The Currency To Be An Absurdity; The Very Terms Of Regulating The Currency And Managing The Currency I Look Upon To Be An Absurdity; The Currency Should Regulate Itself; It Must Be Regulated By The Trade And Commerce Of The World; I Would Neither Allow The Bank Of England Nor Any Private Banks To Have What Is Called The Management Of The Currency.

Let It Never Be Forgotten That It Is Not By Means Of War That States Are Rendered Fit For The Enjoyment Of Constitutional Freedom; On The Contrary, Whilst Terror And Bloodshed Reign In The Land, Involving Men's Minds In The Extremities Of Hopes And Fears, There Can Be No Process Of Thought, No Education Going On, By Which Alone Can A People Be Prepared For The Enjoyment Of Rational Liberty.

I Am No Party Man In This Matter In Any Degree; And If I Have Any Objection To The Motion It Is This, That Whereas It Is A Motion To Inquire Into The Manufacturing Distress Of The Country, It Should Have Been A Motion To Inquire Into Manufacturing And Agricultural Distress.

I've Seen The Smiling Of Fortune Beguiling, I've Felt All Its Favours And Found Its Decay; Sweet Was Its Blessing, Kind Its Caressing, But Now It Is Fled, Fled Far, Far Away.