Richard Cobden Quotes

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• For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.
• Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
• A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.
• Luck relies on chance, labor on character.
• Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.
• Let it never be forgotten that it is not by means of war that states are rendered fit for the enjoyment of constitutional freedom; on…
• The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.
• It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement…
• Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.
• But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.
• I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will…
• I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas…
• On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they…
• You may keep Turkey on the map of Europe, you may call the country by the name of Turkey if you like, but do not…
• I hold all idea of regulating the currency to be an absurdity; the very terms of regulating the currency and managing the currency I look…
• From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security…
• I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I…
• I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been…
• I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and…
• I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you…

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