3 December 2020 Richard Cobden 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.
3 December 2020 Richard Cobden 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.
3 December 2020 Richard Cobden 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.
3 December 2020 Richard Cobden I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments.
3 December 2020 Richard Cobden For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.
3 December 2020 Richard Cobden Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.
