Richard Cobden
Richard Cobden
Richard Cobdenwas an English manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with two major free trade campaigns, the Anti-Corn Law League and the Cobden–Chevalier Treaty...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth3 June 1804
sweet blessing favour
I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I've felt all its favours and found its decay; Sweet was its blessing, kind its caressing, But now it is fled, fled far, far away.
freedom office progress
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.
liberty libertarian looks
Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.
war commerce aristocratic
Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
government people earth
Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.
gaps credibility gullibility
For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.
information should newspapers
A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.
government east oracles
This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.
military fall home
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.
religious body found
In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.
jobs people able
People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have.
believe historical information
I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.
government would-be problem
The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all.
war individual made
Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.