The middle and industrious classes of England can have no interest apart from the preservation of peace. The honours, the fame, the emoluments of war belong not to them; the battle-plain is the harvest-field of the aristocracy, watered with the blood of the people.
Sunday, April 02, 2006
"No Foreign Politics"
Richard Cobden, the great liberal promoter of peace and free trade, in 1835 wrote:
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