"It was Cobden who really set the argument on its legs: and it is futile to compare any other man with him as the father of our system of Free Trade."
— Richard Cobden

January 1, 1970

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Members of the Parliament of the United KingdomPacifistsAnglicans from the United KingdomBusinesspeople from EnglandRight-libertarians
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William Ewart Gladstone, ‘Protectionism, 1840–1860’ (12 July 1894), quoted in John Brooke and Mary Sorensen (eds.), The Prime Minister's Papers: W. E. Gladstone. I: Autobiographica (1971), p. 73