Best quotes by Richard Cobden on War
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‟ Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.
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‟ On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.
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‟ 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.
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‟ 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.
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‟ 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