History Quotes Britain 1815-1865
Quotes for each topic from 1815-1865
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Quotes About Radicals and Repression 1815-1820
RADICALS:
"The radicals lacked the military teeth" - Flagship History
"seldom in history has a government been so hated by its people" - A. Wood
"The French Revolution directed the minds of the lower orders" - Lord Liverpool
REPRESSION:
[Peterloo was] "a blunder not a massacre" - Evans
[Suspension of Habeas Corpus was like] "a dark cloud of opression" - Bamford
[Liverpool dealt with the radicals with] "firmness even ruthlessness" - W.D Rubinstein
The judges dealt with Peterloo with "foolishness and inconsistency"
"Carol-loo" - Evans
Liberal/Enlightened Tories 1822-29
"many issues were left untouched"- Pugh
"hardly be described as enlightened" - Flagship
"Unquestionably a change for the better" - Aspinall
DECLINE
"the illness and resignation of Lord Liverpool began the disintegration" -N.Gash
"never has a weaker or more unstable ministry sat in a cabinet" - Duke of Newcastle
[Catholic Association was] "the first successful extra-parliamentary pressure group" - W.D Rubinstein
Whig Reforms
GENERAL REFORM
"Impressive package of genuine attempts to relieve social distress" - Murphy
"much that was neglected" - Murphy
[reform is a] "mere trick of state for the preservation of power" - Earl Grey
"significant contribution to the Victorian age" - Evans
[the Poor Law Amendment Act] "Unquestionably encouraged prudency, saving and thrift" - W.D Rubinstein
GREAT REFORM ACT 1832
"paved the way for a century of peaceful political evolution" - Derry
"a corrupt relic of the past" - Ward
"not a good bill but a great bill when passed" - Evans
"Reform delayed is revolution begun" - Dawson
Chartists 1839-1848
FORMATION:
[revolutions in Europe had] "given great heart to the Chartists" - Roberts
"reform delayed is revolution begun" - Dawson
"knife and fork; a bread and cheese question" - Stephens
FAILURE:
[they failed because of the] "firm but not brutal government response" - W.D Rubinstein
"they were temporarily strong everywhere" - W.D Rubinstein (shows that they were only strong for a short time)
"failed to call upon a united working class" - Cunningham
[The anti-corn law league had] "missionary zeal" and were the "Greatest mass movement of reform" - W.D Rubinstein
Peel's Reforms and Corn Law Repeal
REFORM GENERALLY
"Peel lacked a sense of vision" - Clark
"contradictory character containing mixed good and evil" - Greville
"economic stability was restored" - Gash
"always seemed to me the most faultless of ministers"
"Peel's proposals were ingenious and far-reaching" - W.D Rubinstein
REPEAL OF CORN LAWS
[The anti-corn law league had] "missionary zeal" and were the "Greatest mass movement of reform" - W.D Rubinstein
"I deny Peel a place as one of the great Conservative leaders because he split the party" - Blake
Mid Victorian Boom & Gladstone's Reforms
REASONS FOR A BOOM
"a major factor in the growth of the British economy was the lack of competition" - Flagship
"Extension of free trade created a positive dynamic" - Hudson
[An agricultural boom would be] "too strong" - Murphy
Castlereagh, Canning and Palmerstone
Castlereagh:
- "without a diplomatic or military card in his hand, he negotiated a peace treaty with the allies that would protect all Britain's best interests" - M.E Chamberlain
- "his policies were ahead of his time" - Kissinger
- "I met murder on the way, he had a mask like Castlereagh" - Shelley
Canning:
- "His most important achievement was the destruction of the Holy Alliance" - Hayes
- "maintain and increase Britain's prestige and prosperity" - Hinde
Palmerstone:
- "was closer to Castlereagh than Canning in his emphasis of Balance of Power in Europe" - S.J. Lee
Aims of Foreign Policy 1815-1846
BALANCE OF POWER IN EUROPE
"containment and order, not conquest and expansion" - Wood
"cautious containment of France" - Bloy
Repeal Association, Young Ireland, Irish Famine, F
"The Catholic Association was the first successful extra-parliamentary pressure group" - W.D. Rubinstein
"The Almighty indeed brought the blight but the English created the famine" -John Mitchel (one of leaders of Young Ireland)
"great political genius" O'Farrell (about O'Connell)
Peel showed "much sympathetic consideration" to the Irish - W.D Rubinstein
"Ireland is too poor for a Poor Law" - O'Connell
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