"[T]he principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before."
— Richard Cobden

January 1, 1970

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Speech at Rochdale (23 November 1864), quoted in John Bright and J. E. Thorold Rogers (eds.), Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden, M.P. Volume II (1908), p. 496