Richard CobdenLuck relies on chance, labor on character.371Love
Richard CobdenA newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.333Truth
Richard CobdenThe 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. … ▶367Reading
Richard CobdenPeace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.313HumanityPolitics
Richard CobdenI 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… ▶369Truth
Richard CobdenIt 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. 3710Humanity
Richard CobdenOn 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. ✨ Richa… ▶304Reading
Richard CobdenFor every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.329Politics
Richard CobdenLet 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 rei… ▶277HopeHumanityPolitics
Richard CobdenI 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… ▶2810Politics
Richard CobdenBut it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half. ✨ Richard Cobden (1870). Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, p.404194Life
Richard CobdenLook not to the politicians; look to yourselves.228Politics
Richard CobdenThe landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated. ✨ Richard Cobden (1870). Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, p.31208Sadness
Richard CobdenWars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce. ✨ Richard Cobden (1854). Russia and the Eastern Question, p.332010Love
