The taxes have reached their ultimate limit. How to deal with it?
Category: War
UNDER THE REPUBLIC – XI
The following phrase is from a diplomat, pertaining to diplomacy: Speech has been granted to man in order to disguise his thoughts.
UNDER THE REPUBLIC – IX
However, the kings of Europe would think they would go astray through such a behaviour, which is the only way to save themselves.
UNDER THE REPUBLIC – I
Heaven be pleased that all the peoples manage to avoid the sad necessity to throw themselves at each other upon the call of aristocracies and kings.
PROJECT FOR A SPEECH IN FAVOUR OF FREE-TRADE TO BE GIVEN IN BAYONNE
Please let me show you the intimate connexion there is on one side between the restrictive regime and the spirit of war, and on the other side between free-trade and the spirit of peace.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
Any substantial social progress can only follow the material improvement in the people’s condition.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
We are always ready to succor the unfortunate, she says, but that is no reason why the law should generate unfortunate people.
FOURTH SPEECH
The spirit of free-trade excludes the spirit of war, conquest and domination.
ABOUT THE IMPRESSMENT
We ignore how long it will take for nations to learn not to see a gain in the tort they do upon each other this way.
ARMING GREAT BRITAIN
We are deeply convinced that free-trade creates the harmony of interests and peace between nations.
ABOUT THE INFLUENCE OF FRENCH AND ENGLISH TARIFFS
Hence, a prohibitive regime is a permanent source of war; I would even say that, nowadays, it is almost the only one.
ABOUT THE FUTURE OF WINE TRADE
The day will come, I hope, when you will be able to convert your war ships into merchant ships and that we will give back our young soldiers to the industry.
LETTER TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE PEACE CONGRESS, IN FRANKFURT
Wars no longer have vested interest as their cause or even their pretext, since they are always contrary to the real interests of the masses.
LETTERS TO RICHARD COBDEN
One day, people will say: “as we are not in a position to send the army back home, we need to send it over to rise up against other peoples”
LETTERS TO RICHARD COBDEN
I would have dismissed half of the army and three quarters of the navy. However, I am not a minister.
WAR
The characteristic feature of plunder is its inability to provide any satisfaction without a corresponding privation…
WAR
God forbid that I should deny the existence of self-sacrifice. But it will be admitted that examples of it are exceptional…
COMPETITION.
To harm others is to harm ourselves; to spread obstacles, tariffs, coalitions, or wars along the path of others is to obstruct our own progress.
PEACE AND FREEDOM
All this proves to us that, while the minds of governments are full of war, those of the governed are full of peace
19. – ANTEDILUVIAN SUGAR.
But when we have gone down the wrong road for so long, it is childish to refuse to join the right road because it will cause some discomfort.
XVII. – DOMINATION THROUGH WORK.
To have less iron because you work less and more iron in spite of working less are situations that are more than different; they are quite opposite to one another.
XXII. – METAPHORS.
The meaning of three or four words is altered, strained, and degraded, and this says it all.
XIX. – NATIONAL INDEPENDANCE.
I am fully aware that I will be blamed (for this is the current fashion) for resting fraternity between nations on self-interest, vile and prosaic interest.
XVI. – BLOCKED RIVERS PLEADING IN FAVOR OF THE PROHIBITIONISTS.
For the channeling of the Garonne would encourage the invasion of products from Toulouse to the detriment of Bordeaux and the flooding of products from Bordeaux to the detriment of Toulouse.
XIV. – A CONFLICT OF PRINCIPLES.
Protectionist systems, colonial systems: these are therefore just two aspects of the same theory.
V. – OUR PRODUCTS ARE WEIGHED DOWN WITH TAXES.
I would like to be told what the great standing armies and the powerful navies would be used for if trade were free.