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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.