Richard Cobden
Richard Cobden (June 3, 1804 April 2, 1865) was an a British manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with John Bright in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League.
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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.
— Richard Cobden
Luck relies on chance, labor on character.
— Richard Cobden