Mises Daily
Author:
Richard Cobden
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[Speech delivered February 8, 1844. Reprinted in The Liberal Tradition from Fox to Keynes (1957).] I am a manufacturer of clothing, and I do not know why, in this climate, and in the artificial state of society in which we live, the making of clothes should not be as honorable — because it is pretty near as useful — a pursuit as the manufacture of