Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
Richard CobdenPeace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.
Richard CobdenIt 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 CobdenThe progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.
Richard Cobden