Quote#Money & Wealth
This Coercion Act professes to be in the main an Act directed against…
Quote byWilliam Ewart Gladstone · 1809–1898
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech in London (30 June 1888), quoted in The Times (2 July 1888), p. 7..
English (original)
This Coercion Act professes to be in the main an Act directed against conspiracy, and conspiracy is a bad thing. But under the name of conspiracy we say that it is directed against combination. Combination is not always a very good thing, but combination is very often the sole means by which the weak can protect themselves against the strong, the poor against the wealthy.
— William Ewart Gladstone
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