Not who you're looking for? Others named John Bright: British Radical and Liberal statesman (1811–1889) · United States federal judge (1884-1948) · British costume designer · English physician
“We may be proud that England is the ancient country of Parliaments. With scarcely any intervening period, Parliaments have met constantly for 600 years, and there was something of a Parliament before the Conquest. England is the mother of Parliaments.”
“There is no nation on the Continent of Europe that is less able to do harm to England, and there is no nation on the Continent of Europe to whom we are less able to do harm than we are to Russia. We are so separated that it seems impossible that the two nations, by the use of reason or common sense at all, could possibly be brought into conflict with each other.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
