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

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

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

- 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…

- Richard Cobden

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

- Richard Cobden

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

- 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…

- Richard Cobden

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 the contrary, w…

- 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 …

- Richard Cobden