Author: Richard Cobden

Quotes

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

- Richard Cobden

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 employments.

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 employments.

- Richard Cobden

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 had engaged to enter into arbitration.

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 had engaged to enter into arbitration.

- Richard Cobden

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 against war.

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 against war.

- Richard Cobden

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

- Richard Cobden

Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

- Richard Cobden

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

- 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.

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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