Richard Cobden - Commerce Quotes

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The city of St. Louis is, in the solidity of its buildings, the extent of its commerce, and the reputed wealth of its capitalists, the third in importance in the States. I have seen no place in the interior which gives the same impression of solid wealth and extensive commerce.

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 labours of cabinets and foreign offices.

Richard Cobden