Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
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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.Richard Cobden
For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.
Richard Cobden
At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.
Richard Cobden
I should, therefore, be a hypocrite, if I were to say I have any particular repugnance to a system of education coupled with religious instruction.
Richard Cobden
The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.
Richard Cobden
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.
Richard Cobden
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