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But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half  (Richard Cobden Quotes) The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.  (Richard Cobden Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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.  (Richard Cobden Quotes) 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 Quotes) Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out  (Richard Cobden Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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  (Richard Cobden Quotes) 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  (Richard Cobden Quotes) 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  (Richard Cobden Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure  (Richard Cobden Quotes) Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce  (Richard Cobden Quotes) A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment  (Richard Cobden Quotes) For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap  (Richard Cobden Quotes) Luck relies on chance, labor on character  (Richard Cobden Quotes) Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves  (Richard Cobden Quotes) 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  (Richard Cobden Quotes) Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less  (Richard Cobden Quotes) 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  (Richard Cobden Quotes) ... the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before  (Richard Cobden Quotes) Cobden was the greatest statesman and prophet of the century. His speeches are an inspiration. A man whose disciple I am willing to confess I am  (Richard Cobden Quotes) The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated  (Richard Cobden Quotes) People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have  (Richard Cobden Quotes) 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 Quotes) Sometimes slavery is founded upon the inferiority of one race to another; and then it appears in its most agreeable garb, for the system may be necessary to tame and civilize a race of savages  (Richard Cobden Quotes) 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  (Richard Cobden Quotes) 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 Quotes)
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