Richard Cobden: 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.

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


		Name: Richard Cobden Type: Businessman Nationality: British Birth: June 3, 1804 Death: April 2, 1865

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