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
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.
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.
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.
war mean men
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, whilst terror and bloodshed reign in the land, involving men's minds in the extremities of hopes and fears, there can be no process of thought, no education going on, by which alone can a people be prepared for the enjoyment of rational liberty.
war commerce aristocratic
Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
war individual made
Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.
war doors agreement
It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.
prospects reached view
You had reached a pessimistic view about your company's prospects with the upcoming (copyright) case.
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 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.