Quotes by Richard Cobden

About Richard Cobden:

Richard Cobden was an English manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with two major free trade campaigns, the Anti-Corn Law League and the Cobden–Chevalier Treaty.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

Richard Cobden

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

Richard Cobden

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

Richard Cobden

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

Richard Cobden

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 an...

Richard Cobden

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

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

Richard Cobden

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

Richard Cobden

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

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

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

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

Richard Cobden

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

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

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.

Richard Cobden

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

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

Richard Cobden

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...

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.

Richard Cobden

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

Author Bio

  • NameRichard Cobden
  • DescriptionEnglish manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman
  • BornJune 3, 1804
  • DiedApril 2, 1865
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPolitician; Economist