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"I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace."

Richard Cobden on Peace

More quotes about Peace

  • "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."

    Jimi Hendrix on Peace

  • "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Peace

  • "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

    Mother Teresa on Peace

  • "I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."

    Martin Luther King, Jr. on Peace

  • "Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one."

    John Lennon on Peace

More quotes by Richard Cobden

  • "The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices."

  • "I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist."

  • "In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction."

  • "I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments."

  • "The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices."

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