Richard Cobden Quotes

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• A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

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  Information, Newspapers, Should

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• For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

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  Gaps, Credibility, Gullibility

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• Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.

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  Government, People, Earth

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• Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

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  Peace, War, Commerce

  Richard Cobden (1854). “Russia and the Eastern Question”, p.33

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• Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

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  Liberty, Looks, Libertarian

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• 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.

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  Freedom, Office, Progress

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.228

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• The people of the two nations, French and English, must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no other way of counteracting the antagonism of language and race. It is God's own method of producing an entente cordiale, and no other plan is worth a farthing.

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  Race, Two Nations, People

  Letter to M. Michel Chevalier, September, 1859.

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• 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.

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  Ideas, Looks, World

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• I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.

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  Light, Law, People

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• 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.

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  War, Mean, Men

  Richard Cobden (1835). “England, Ireland, and America”, p.44

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• Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

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  Character, Luck, Chance

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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.

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  Strong, Lying, Work

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• Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

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  War, Individual, Made

  Richard Cobden (1850). “Speeches on Peace, Financial Reform, Colonial Reform, and Other Subjects: Delivered During 1849”, p.102

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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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  Long, Abuse, Term

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.31

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• 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.

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  Country, Thinking, Europe

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• 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.

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  Sweet, Blessing, Decay

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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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  Military, Fall, Home

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• the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who are mystified into the notion that they are not political bondmen, by that great juggle of the ' English Constitution ' a thing of monopolies, and Church-craft, and sinecures, armorial hocus-pocus, primogeniture, and pageantry!

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  Rights, Political, Church

  Richard Cobden (2007). “Richard Cobden's German Diaries”, p.24, Walter de Gruyter

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• I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.

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  Country, Religious, Years

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.568

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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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  Government, Would Be, Problem

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.379

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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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  Believe, Historical, Information

  Richard Cobden (1864). “Mr. Cobden and "The Times": Correspondence Between Mr. Cobden, M.P., and Mr. Delane, Editor of "The Times" ; with a Supplementary Correspondence Between Mr. Cobden, and the Editor of the "Daily Telegraph".”, p.10

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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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  Jobs, People, Able

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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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  Religious, Body, Instruction

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.574

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• But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

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  Half, Welsh, Better Half

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.404

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• 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?

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  Government, India, Emergencies

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.392

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