Richard Cobden Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Richard Cobden quotes and sayings page 2 (businessman). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 26 we have.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.”
“Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.”
“Luck relies on chance, labor on character.”
“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.”
“People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have.”
“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.”
“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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