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Trade is a social act.

—John Stuart Mill, 1859

A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.

—Ecclesiasticus, c. 180 BC

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

—Aphra Behn, 1677

God is making commerce his missionary.

—Joseph Cook, c. 1877

Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.

—Lionel Jospin, 1998

Profit is profit even in Mecca.

—Nigerian proverb

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.

—Mary Lease, c. 1890

There is no profit without another’s loss.

—Roman proverb

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

—Ida M. Tarbell, 1904

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.

—Helen Keller, 1928

Exchange is no robbery.

—German proverb

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880

Everyone lives by selling something.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892