Richard Cobden

“A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.”

“I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.”

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