44 Quotes by Richard Cobden

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

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.

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.

I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency?

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.

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.

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.