Quote by: 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.


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