Let it never be forgotten that it is not by means of war that states are rendered fit for the enjoyment of constitutional freedom on the contrary, whilst terror and bloodshed reign in the land, involving men's minds in the extremities of hopes and fears, there can be no process of thought, no education going on, by which alone can a people be prepared for the enjoyment of rational liberty.
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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.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.
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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.
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At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.
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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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Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
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