Richard Cobden Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• 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.

  Richard Cobden

  Country, War, Arbitration

  Richard Cobden (1850). “Speeches on Peace, Financial Reform, Colonial Reform, and Other Subjects: Delivered During 1849”, p.101

• 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.

  Richard Cobden

  Country, Thinking, Europe

• I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress.

  Richard Cobden

  Country, Party, Men

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.30

• 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.

  Richard Cobden

  Country, Religious, Years

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

• The idea of defending, as integral parts of our Empire, countries 10,000 miles off, like Australia, which neither pay a shilling to our revenue... nor afford us any exclusive trade... is about as quixotic a specimen of national folly as was ever exhibited.

  Richard Cobden

  Country, Ideas, Australia

  "Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden M.P". Book edited by James E. Thorold Rogers, 1878.

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