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I therefore declare, that if y...

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.

Richard Cobden 66 quotes

In Holland, they have come to ...

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.

Richard Cobden 66 quotes

People who eat potatoes will n...

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

Richard Cobden 66 quotes

I believe it has been said tha...

I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.

Richard Cobden 66 quotes

The problem to solve is, wheth...

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 66 quotes

This great oracle of the East ...

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.

Richard Cobden 66 quotes

Treaties of peace, made after ...

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

Richard Cobden 66 quotes

But it is my happiness to be h...

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

Richard Cobden 66 quotes

Peace will come to earth when ...

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

Richard Cobden 66 quotes

The people of the two nations ...

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.

Richard Cobden 66 quotes

I believe it has been said tha...

I believe it has been said that one copy of the 'Times' contains
more useful information than the whole of the historical works of
Thucydides.

Richard Cobden 66 quotes

A newspaper should be the maxi...

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

Richard Cobden 66 quotes

The progress of freedom depend...

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.

Richard Cobden 66 quotes

For every credibility gap ther...

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

Richard Cobden 66 quotes

The progress of freedom depend...

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.

Richard Cobden 66 quotes

I've seen the smiling of Fortu...

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.

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the twelve or fifteen millions...

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!

Richard Cobden 66 quotes

The idea of defending, as inte...

The idea of defending, as integral parts of our Empire, countries 10,000 miles off, like Australia, which neither pay a shilling to our revenue...nor afford us any exclusive trade...is about as quixotic a specimen of national folly as was ever exhibited.

Richard Cobden 66 quotes

the principles of political ec...

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

Richard Cobden 66 quotes

I believe that the harm which ...

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.

Richard Cobden 66 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....