Joseph Hume

“The best security for the fidelity of men is to make it their interest to be faithful.”

“Peace, retrenchment and reform.”

“The end of all government is to produce the greatest possible quantity of happiness in the nation.”

“Public money is like holy water, every one helps himself to it.”

“The greatest of all checks, is the substitution of a system of publicity for a system of secrecy.”

“I have no hesitation in saying that the repeal of the corn laws would be the most extensive and beneficial reform of the many which it has been my lot to witness.”