Richard Cobden Quotes


You may keep Turkey on the map of Europe, you may call the country by the name of Turkey if you like, but do not think you can keep up the Mahommedan rule in the country. - Richard Cobden



You had reached a pessimistic view about your company's prospects with the upcoming (copyright) case. - Richard Cobden



Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce. - Richard Cobden



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



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