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
war years government
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.
government people earth
Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.
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.
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.
government emergencies england
I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency?
prospects reached view
You had reached a pessimistic view about your company's prospects with the upcoming (copyright) case.
came enormous hardly importance less modern peace practical practice question simply standing sustain time treat war
I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.
constant increase knowledge scientific
For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.
resort
At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.
existing increase limit sat
I have sat on the army, navy, and ordnance committees, and I see no limit to the increase of our armaments under the existing system.
country war engagement
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.
country thinking turkeys
You may keep Turkey on the map of Europe, you may call the country by the name of Turkey if you like, but do not think you can keep up the Mahommedan rule in the country.
ideas looks world
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 an absurdity; the currency should regulate itself; it must be regulated by the trade and commerce of the world; I would neither allow the Bank of England nor any private banks to have what is called the management of the currency.
names coward world
I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.