Commerce has made all winds her ministers.
—John Sterling, 1843
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In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880God is making commerce his missionary.
—Joseph Cook, c. 1877I am weary of friends, and friendships are all monsters.
—Jonathan Swift, 1710It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.
—Adam Smith, 1776The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1908I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773The mansion of modern freedoms stands on an ever-expanding base of fossil-fuel use.
—Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2008It’s easy to be independent when you’ve got money. But to be independent when you haven’t got a thing—that’s the Lord’s test.
—Mahalia Jackson, 1966In every human breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom; it is impatient of oppression and pants for deliverance.
—Phillis Wheatley, 1774The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890Exchange is no robbery.
—German proverbMake human nature your study wherever you reside—whatever the religion or the complexion, study their hearts.
—Ignatius Sancho, 1778