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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war. Richard Cobden Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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? Richard Cobden Read Quote
I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance – the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace. Richard Cobden Read Quote
I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress. Richard Cobden Read Quote
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. Richard Cobden Read Quote
For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure. Richard Cobden Read Quote
