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War Quotes by Richard Cobden
- Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.
- I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is…
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