Richard Cobden Quotes & Sayings

“For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.”

“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.”

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

“The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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?”