The 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. Richard Cobden More Quotes by Richard Cobden More Quotes From Richard Cobden A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment. Richard Cobden information newspapers should For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap. Richard Cobden gullibility gaps credibility Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less. Richard Cobden government earth people Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves. Richard Cobden libertarian liberty looks The people of the two nations, French and English, must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no other way of counteracting the antagonism of language and race. It is God's own method of producing an entente cordiale, and no other plan is worth a farthing. Richard Cobden two-nations race people Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce. Richard Cobden commerce war peace I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated. Richard Cobden light law people 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 men war mean Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out. Richard Cobden individual made war The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated. Richard Cobden abuse term long Luck relies on chance, labor on character. Richard Cobden chance luck character 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 religious country years 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 europe country thinking 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. Richard Cobden decay blessing sweet 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 india government directors 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 strong work lying the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who are mystified into the notion that they are not political bondmen, by that great juggle of the ' English Constitution ' a thing of monopolies, and Church-craft, and sinecures, armorial hocus-pocus, primogeniture, and pageantry! Richard Cobden political church rights 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 australia country ideas the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before. Richard Cobden political principles class I believe that the harm which Mill has done to the world by the passage in his book on Political Economy in which he favours the principle of Protection in young communities, has outweighed all the good which may have been caused by his other writings. Richard Cobden writing believe book
