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Richard Cobden Biography

Richard Cobden (3 June 1804 – 2 April 1865) was an English manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with two major free trade campaigns, the Anti-Corn Law League and the Cobden–Chevalier Treaty.

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Cobden was the greatest statesman and prophet of the century. His speeches are an inspiration. A man whose disciple I am willing to confess I am.

Cobden, Greatest, Inspiration, Men, Speech, Statesman

Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman will bring news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock and with busy pen or ringing hammer, lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

Strong, Lying, Work, Legacy, Bed, Six

On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.

Country, War, Arbitration, Enter, Engaged

the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who are mystified into the notion that they are not political bondmen, by that great juggle of the ' English Constitution ' a thing of monopolies, and Church-craft, and sinecures, armorial hocus-pocus, primogeniture, and pageantry!

Rights, Political, Church, Pageantry, Thing, Millions

You may keep Turkey on the map of Europe, you may call the country by the name of Turkey if you like, but do not think you can keep up the Mahommedan rule in the country.

Country, Thinking, Europe, Mahommedan, Call, Name

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.

Country, Religious, Years, National, Hopes

Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

War, Individual, Made, Entrusted, Carry

the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before.

Class, Political, Principles, Place, Elevated, Economy

The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no other way of counteracting the antagonism of language and race. It is God's own method of producing an entente cordiale, and no other plan is worth a farthing.

Race, Two Nations, People, Counteracting, Cordiale, Method

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

Peace, War, Commerce, Oppressing, Wars

I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I've felt all its favours and found its decay; Sweet was its blessing, kind its caressing, But now it is fled, fled far, far away.

Blessing, Decay, Fled, Fortune, Seen, Sweet

I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress.

Country, Party, Men, Man, Inquire, Matter

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

Better Half, Half, Happiness, Welsh

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

Chance, Character, Luck, Relies

People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have.

Jobs, People, Able, Abilities, Job, Potatoes

This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.

Government, Directors, India, East, Admits

Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.

Come, Earth, Government, Governments, Peace, People

I believe that the harm which Mill has done to the world by the passage in his book on Political Economy in which he favours the principle of Protection in young communities, has outweighed all the good which may have been caused by his other writings.

Believe, Book, Writing, Young, Caused

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.

Accustomed, Coward, English, Names, Pay, World

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

Libertarian, Liberty, Look, Looks, Politicians

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