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Top 25 Richard Cobden Quotes (2025 Update)

Richard Cobden Quote: “Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.”

1. “Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.”

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Richard Cobden Quote: “For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.”

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

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Richard Cobden Quote: “Luck relies on chance, labor on character.”

3. “Luck relies on chance, labor on character.”

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Richard Cobden Quote: “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.”

4. “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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Richard Cobden Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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Richard Cobden Quote: “A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.”

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

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

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

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

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

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Richard Cobden Quote: “I’ve seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I’ve felt all its favours and found its decay; Sweet was its blessing, kind its caressing, But now it is fled, fled far, far away.”

9. “I’ve seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I’ve felt all its favours and found its decay; Sweet was its blessing, kind its caressing, But now it is fled, fled far, far away.”

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Richard Cobden Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

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Richard Cobden Quote: “People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have.”

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

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Richard Cobden Quote: “I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.”

12. “I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.”

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Richard Cobden Quote: “Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.”

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

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Richard Cobden Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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

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

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Richard Cobden Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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Richard Cobden Quote: “The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.”

17. “The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.”

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Richard Cobden Quote: “Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.”

18. “Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.”

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Richard Cobden Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

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Richard Cobden Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

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Richard Cobden Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

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Richard Cobden Quote: “I believe that the harm which Mill has done to the world by the passage in his book on Political Economy in which he favours the principle of Protection in young communities, has outweighed all the good which may have been caused by his other writings.”

22. “I believe that the harm which Mill has done to the world by the passage in his book on Political Economy in which he favours the principle of Protection in young communities, has outweighed all the good which may have been caused by his other writings.”

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Richard Cobden Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

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Richard Cobden Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

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Richard Cobden Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

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Richard Cobden Quote: “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?”

26. “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?”

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Richard Cobden Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

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Richard Cobden Quote: “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.”

28. “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.”

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Richard Cobden Quote: “Cobden was the greatest statesman and prophet of the century. His speeches are an inspiration. A man whose disciple I am willing to confess I am.”

29. “Cobden was the greatest statesman and prophet of the century. His speeches are an inspiration. A man whose disciple I am willing to confess I am.”

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