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Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

Richard Cobden
Peace, War, Commerce
Richard Cobden (1854). “Russia and the Eastern Question”, p.33

Let it never be forgotten that it is not by means of war that states are rendered fit for the enjoyment of constitutional freedom; on the contrary, whilst terror and bloodshed reign in the land, involving men's minds in the extremities of hopes and fears, there can be no process of thought, no education going on, by which alone can a people be prepared for the enjoyment of rational liberty.

Richard Cobden
War, Mean, Men
Richard Cobden (1835). “England, Ireland, and America”, p.44

Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

Richard Cobden
War, Individual, Made
Richard Cobden (1850). “Speeches on Peace, Financial Reform, Colonial Reform, and Other Subjects: Delivered During 1849”, p.102

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
War, Years, Government
Richard Cobden (1850). “Speeches on Peace, Financial Reform, Colonial Reform, and Other Subjects: Delivered During 1849”, p.103

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.

Richard Cobden
Country, War, Arbitration
Richard Cobden (1850). “Speeches on Peace, Financial Reform, Colonial Reform, and Other Subjects: Delivered During 1849”, p.101

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
War, Doors, Agreement
Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.4

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