Cobden Was The Greatest Statesman And Prophet

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.

I Took The Repeal Of The Corn Laws As Light Amusement Compared With The Difficult Task Of Inducing The Priests Of All Denominations To Agree To Suffer The People To Be Educated.

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.

Wars Have Ever Been But Another Aristocratic Mode Of Plundering And Oppressing Commerce.

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.