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

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

Wherever commerce prevails there will be an inequality of wealth, and wherever the latter does a simplicity of manners must decline.

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

God is making commerce his missionary.

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

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

Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left with the unique role of buying.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

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

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.

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