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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace

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. – Richard Cobden

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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. – Richard Cobden

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fitness
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Richard Cobden
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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. – Richard Cobden

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The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work. – Michael Jackson

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The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise. – Mia Love

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My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics. – Sloane Crosley

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Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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