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

You must not grow used to making money out of everything. One sees more people ruined than one has seen preserved by shameful gains.

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

A shopkeeper will never get the more custom by beating his customers; and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.

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

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

There is no profit without another’s loss.

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.

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 is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber.

The merchant always has fresh losses to expect, and the dread of base poverty forbids his rest.

Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.