. Little journeys to the homes of great reformers ... Richard Cobden RICHARD COBDEN WHAT I contend is that England is to-day so situated in everyparticular of her domestic and foreign circumstances, that byleaving other governments to settle their own business and fight outtheir own quarrels, and by attending to the vast and difficult affairsof her own enormous realm, and the condition of her people, she willnot only be setting the world an example of noble morality, whichno other nation is so happily free to set, but she will be followingthe very course which the maintenance of her own greatn
. Little journeys to the homes of great reformers ... Richard Cobden RICHARD COBDEN WHAT I contend is that England is to-day so situated in everyparticular of her domestic and foreign circumstances, that byleaving other governments to settle their own business and fight outtheir own quarrels, and by attending to the vast and difficult affairsof her own enormous realm, and the condition of her people, she willnot only be setting the world an example of noble morality, whichno other nation is so happily free to set, but she will be followingthe very course which the maintenance of her own greatness mostimperatively demands. It is precisely because Great Britain is sostrong in resources, in courage, in institutions, in geographical posi-tion, that she can, before all other European powers, afford to bemoral, and to set the example of a mighty nation walking in the pathsof justice and peace. COBDEN—Speech in Parliament
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