God is making commerce his missionary.

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

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

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

The money market is to a commercial nation what the heart is to man.

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.

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

Commerce has made all winds her ministers.

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

Trade’s proud empire hastes to swift decay.

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

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

Peace is a natural effect of trade.