Commerce Quotes - Page 14

• There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though dismembered and alienated from each other.... The genius of republics, say they, is pacific; the spirit of commerce has a tendency to soften the manners of men, and to extinguish those inflammable humours which have so often kindled into wars. Commercial republics, like ours, will never be disposed to waste themselves in ruinous contentions with each other. They will be governed by mutual interest, and will cultivate a spirit of mutual amity and concord.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Men, Mutual Interest

  "The Federalist on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, with an Appendix Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793".

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• The Spirit of Enterprise, which characterizes the commercial part of America, has left no occasion of displaying itself unimproved. It is not at all probable that this unbridled spirit would pay much respect to those regulations of trade by which particular States might endeavor to secure exclusive benefits to their own citizens.

  Alexander Hamilton

  America, Citizens, Benefits

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Henry Barton Dawson (1864). “The Fœderalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Fœderal Convention, September 17, 1787. Reprinted from the Original Text. With an Historical Introduction and Notes”, p.37, New York : C. Scribner ; London : Sampson Low

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• The defect of power in the existing confederacy, to regulate the commerce between its several members is in the number of those which have been clearly pointed out by experience . . . . A very material object of this power was the relief of the States which import and export through other States from the improper contributions levied on them by the latter.

  James Madison

  Numbers, Relief, States

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1818). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, by Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Madison, and Mr. Jay: with an Appendix, Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius, on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793; Also, the Original Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution of the United States, with the Amendments Made Thereto”, p.265

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• I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic - it is also a truth, that if industry and labour are left to take their own course, they will generally be directed to those objects which are the most productive, and this in a more certain and direct manner than the wisdom of the most enlightened legislature could point out.

  James Madison

  Unjust, Enlightened, Legislature

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.21, University of Virginia Press

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• It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation . . . . Our interest will be to throw open the doors of commerce, and to knock off all its shackles, giving perfect freedom to all persons for the vent to whatever they may choose to bring into our ports, and asking the same in theirs.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Doors, Giving, Perfect

  Thomas Jefferson (1801). “Notes on the State of Virginia”, p.257

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• The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Civil Rights, Manage, Left

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• He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it’s most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the christian king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce...

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Kings, War

  Thomas Jefferson’s “original Rough draught” of the Declaration of Independence, founders.archives.gov. June 11 – July 4, 1776.

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• Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call war and commerce. These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Christian, Cheating, Powerful

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.152, 谷月社

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• (...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.

  James Joyce

  Hygiene, People, Voting

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.600, Delphi Classics

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• That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Way, Study, Academic

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• Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Ophelia, Lord

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.920

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• Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not lie in material egoism, but in a spirit of sacrifice and joyful renunciation.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Sacrifice, Technology

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Lavina led me to an abandoned warehouse. I think that at some point someone decreed that all clandestine meetings must be held in one. Woe to the criminal overlord who lives in a city thriving with commerce, with no empty warehouses to be found. He probably needs to build one, just to have a place to arrange late-night meetings. (Bewitched)

  Kelley Armstrong

  Night, Thinking, Cities

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “Tales of the Otherworld”, p.49, Bantam

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• Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

  Jasper Fforde

  Greed, Done, Cash

  "The Eyre Affair". Book by Jasper Fforde, 2001.

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• Love That’s it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The loose connexion. To search behind the horizon. To brush fallen leaves with four shoes and in one’s mind to rub bare feet. To let and rent hearts; or in a room with shower and mirror, in a hired car, bonnet facing the moon, wherever innocence stops and burns its programme, the word in falsetto sounds different and new each time. Today, in front of a box office not yet open, hand in hand crackled the hangdog old man and the dainty old woman. The film promised love.

  Gunter Grass

  Heart, Moon, Men

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• Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Fear, Men, Nwo

  "The New Freedom : A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People" by Woodrow Wilson, (p. 13), 1913.

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• Death came, Death went, but Commerce flowed Eternal.

  Dean Koontz

  Eternal

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.380, Bantam

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• Integrity is at the heart of commerce in the world in which we live. Honesty and integrity comprise the very underpinnings of society.....Indeed, the strength and safety of any organization-including the family-lie in the integrity of its members. Without personal integrity, there can be no confidence. Without confidence, there can be no prospect of permanent success.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Honesty, Lying, Integrity

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• Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it's impossible to satisfy them or achieve them.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Ambition, Understanding, Soul

  Luigi Pirandello (1987). “The late Mattia Pascal”, Eridanos Library

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• Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.

  Neil Postman

  People, Culture, News

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.18, Penguin

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• Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Business, Work, Men

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.40, Cooper Square Press

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• The commerce of a free people is many times more valuable than that of slaves. Freemen produce and consume vastly more than slaves. They have therefore more to buy and more to sell. Hence the free states have a direct pecuniary interest in the civil freedom of all the other states. Commerce between free and slave states is not reciprocal or equal.

  Lysander Spooner

  People, Slave, States

  Lysander Spooner (1845). “The Unconstitutionality of Slavery”, p.130

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• The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce.

  Tom Robbins

  Religious, Children, School

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• The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.

  James Buchan

  Years, Age, Firsts

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• I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.

  Joe Barton

  Common Sense, Trying, Regulation

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