Richard Cobden

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The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.

Richard Cobden
landlords , abuse , terms
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People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have.

Richard Cobden
people , eat , potatoes
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Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

Richard Cobden
luck , labor
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For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

Richard Cobden
every , credibility , gap
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At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

Richard Cobden
arbitration , more , humane
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A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

Richard Cobden
newspaper , should , maximum
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Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

Richard Cobden
wars , ever , been
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Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

Richard Cobden
peace
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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.

Richard Cobden
peace
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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.

Richard Cobden
peace
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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.

Richard Cobden
peace
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For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

Richard Cobden
knowledge
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But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

Richard Cobden
happiness
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I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments.

Richard Cobden
fitness
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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.

Richard Cobden
education