Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out. – Richard Cobden
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
But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half. – Richard Cobden
I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist. – Richard Cobden