Quote by Richard Cobden
For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant i

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure. – Richard Cobden

Other quotes by Richard Cobden

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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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

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Education
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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

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Peace
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Other Quotes from
Knowledge
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We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt. – Franz Kafka

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Knowledge

Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is. – Juan Cole

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Knowledge

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will – are all gone. – Albert J. Nock

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Knowledge

I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic product. People still tell me that I have the best musical thing there. – Miroslav Vitous

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Knowledge

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