Quotation by William Cobbett

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English Grammar (1817)Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine London, The Nonesuch Press (1927)The Autobiography of William Cobbett: The Progress of a Plough-boy to a Seat in Parliament Faber and Faber Limited (1933)"The Last Ten Years" Political Register (London, January 4, 1812)"To a Father" Advice to Young Men and to Young Women (1829, repr. 1930)

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I would have these good people to recollect, that the laws of this country hold out to foreigners an offer of all that liberty of the press which Americans enjoy, and that, if this liberty be abridged, by whatever means it may be done, the laws and the constitution, and all together, is a mere cheat; a snare to catch the credulous and enthusiastic of every other nation; a downright imposition on the world.

William Cobbett

William Cobbett (1762–1835), British author, publisher, Member of Parliament. Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine, p. 59, London, The Nonesuch Press (1927).

Life and Adventures first appeared in 1796 while Cobbett was writing and working in the U.S. He spent six years in the U.S.

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