"Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out."
-Richard Cobden
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"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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"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."
-Richard Cobden
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"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."
-Richard Cobden
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"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
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"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
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"For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure."
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