The human working stock is of interest only insofar as it is profitable.

A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.

Trade is a social act.

It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Honest commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.

Colonialism has meant selling our ore and being left with the holes.

We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities.

A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.

Trade’s proud empire hastes to swift decay.

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.