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

  Topics in Confidence, Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace, Down

• 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

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace, Men

• 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.

  Richard Cobden

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Matter, Party

• 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

  Topics in Country, Education, Success

• 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

  Topics in Country

  Tags in War, Nation

• But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

  Richard Cobden

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness, Better, Half

• A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

  Richard Cobden

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Newspaper, Comment, Maximum

• At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

  Richard Cobden

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Events, Sword, Rational

• For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

  Richard Cobden

  Topics in Knowledge, Progress

  Tags in Scientific

• For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

  Richard Cobden

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Gap

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Name, Pay, Deserve

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Said, Whole

• I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance – the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.

  Richard Cobden

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace, War, Another

• 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?

  Richard Cobden

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cannot, Government, Meet

• 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

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Come, Same

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in High, India, Evidence

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Find, War, Friends

• Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

  Richard Cobden

  Topics in Luck

  Tags in Character, Chance

• People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have.

  Richard Cobden

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Able, Whatever

• 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

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Freedom, Peace

Richard Cobden (26)

Birth:	3rd June, 1804
Death:	2nd April, 1865
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Businessman

About

Richard Cobden was a British manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with John Bright in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League as well as with the Cobden–Chevalier Treaty. He has been called "the greatest classical-liberal thinker on international affairs" by historian Ralph Raico."

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