Richard Cobden

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

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Luck relies on chance, labor on character. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#character #labor #luck #relies

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

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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

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

— Richard Cobden

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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

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

— Richard Cobden

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

— Richard Cobden

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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. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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