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Updated: September 14, 2025

With regard to public works, if I were speaking for the Natives of India, I would state this fact, that in a single English county there are more roads more travelable roads than are to be found in the whole of India; and I would say also that the single city of Manchester, in the supply of its inhabitants with the single article of water, has spent a larger sum of money than the East India Company has spent in the fourteen years from 1834 to 1848 in public works of every kind throughout the whole of its vast dominions.

John Bright - Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1