Richard Cobden despaired at British statesmen using the peerless Royal Navy merely to strangle trade in other countries.

Richard Cobden saw Britain’s international standing in terms of peaceful trade rather than military interventions.

Victorian MP Richard Cobden believed British politicians supporting the slave-owning American South had been led a merry dance.

Victorian MP Richard Cobden offered a startling analogy for the American Civil War.

Victorian MP Richard Cobden pleaded for Britain to set the world an example as a nation open for business.

It is not politicians and their policies that create wealth, but the hard work and ingenuity of ordinary people.