Agreement Quote by Richard Cobden

“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 as to the object of the war.” quote by Richard Cobden — Download Open image

“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 as to the object of the war.”

Richard Cobden

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the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who…

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A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

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