"I believe that if you abolish the Corn-law honestly, and adopt Free Trade in its simplicity, there will not be a tariff in Europe that will not be changed in less than five years to follow your example."
Richard Cobden

January 1, 1970

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Speech in Manchester (15 January 1846)

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