Richard Cobden

The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.

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.

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

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

I have always had confidence in my own ability.