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Richard Cobden Quotes: 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.


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For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.



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



Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.



Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.

Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.



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.



The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.

The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.



Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.



I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.

I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.



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.





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