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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
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Richard Cobden
Age: 60 †
Born: 1804
Born: June 3
Died: 1865
Died: April 2
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Richard Cobden
People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have.
Richard Cobden
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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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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The landlords are not agriculturists that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.
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Luck relies on chance, labor on character.
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Look not to the politicians look to yourselves.
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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.
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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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Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
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