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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 labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Richard Cobden

Freedom

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Freedom advances primarily when societies remain peaceful, trade grows between nations, and education becomes widespread. These factors are more effective in promoting liberty than the efforts of government leaders and diplomats alone.

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