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
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For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.
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You had reached a pessimistic view about your company's prospects with the upcoming (copyright) case.
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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.
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At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have.
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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.
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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.
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Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.
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The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.
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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 postman will bring news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock and with busy pen or ringing hammer, lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance, labor on character.