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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.

Source: Speech, 26 June 1850, to the House of Commons.
-- Richard Cobden, (Jun 3 1804-1865), English politician; He was best known for his successful fight for repeal (1846) of the Corn Laws and his defense of free trade.

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