Richard Cobden Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

4 Famous Quotes by Richard Cobden
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“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.”
Statesmanship Quotes
Source: Letter to M. Michel Chevalier, Sep., 1859
“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.”
Journalism Quotes
Source: in a speech at the Manchester Athenaeum, Dec. 27, 1850
“A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.”
Newspapers Quotes
“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.”
Perspective Quotes