I have sat on the army, navy, and ordnance committees, and I see no limit to the increase of our armaments under the existing system.
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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
Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
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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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The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.
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
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