Richard Cobden Quotes

Richard Cobden — British Businessman born on June 03, 1804, died on April 02, 1865

Richard Cobden 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... (wikipedia)

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

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

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.

The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all.

Richard Cobden Quotes

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