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 can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.
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 … - Richard Cobden
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 …
- Richard Cobden
In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it imprac… - Richard Cobden
In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it imprac…
For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap. - Richard Cobden
For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.
Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the po… - Richard Cobden
Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the po…
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 suffe… - Richard Cobden
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 suffe…
Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce. - Richard Cobden
Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves. - Richard Cobden
Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.
I believe that the harm which Mill has done to the world by the passage in his book on Political Economy in which he favours the principle of Protect… - Richard Cobden
I believe that the harm which Mill has done to the world by the passage in his book on Political Economy in which he favours the principle of Protect…
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 upon to be … - Richard Cobden
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 upon to be …
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