Percy Shelley in 'Mask of Anarchy' in response to Liverpool - shows opposition to Liverpool's government
"I met Murder on the way - he had a mask like Castlereagh"
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Wellington about Roman Catholic Emanciptation and the unrest it may bring *need to know this one*
"If I could avoid even one month of civil war, I would sacrifice my life in order to do it."
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Daniel O'Connell after winning his by-election 1828
"They must now crush us or conciliate us."
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Norman Gash, historian on Liverpool's liberal government
"The mythical transformation of the ministry from reactionary Tory before 1822 to a Liberal Tory afterwards was the invention of subsequent historians."
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Cobbett on the fact that there was little unrest in 1818 probably because there was a good harvest
"I defy you to agitate a man with a full stomach."
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Percy Shelley in 'England in 1819' - what he called the PM and Cabinet
"Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know."
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EP Thompson in defence of the government - only wanted to warn and set example to radicals
"The government wanted blood - not a holocaust, but enough to make an example."
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Card 2
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"If I could avoid even one month of civil war, I would sacrifice my life in order to do it."
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Wellington about Roman Catholic Emanciptation and the unrest it may bring *need to know this one*
Card 3
Front
"They must now crush us or conciliate us."
Back
Card 4
Front
"The mythical transformation of the ministry from reactionary Tory before 1822 to a Liberal Tory afterwards was the invention of subsequent historians."
Back
Card 5
Front
"I defy you to agitate a man with a full stomach."
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