The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770
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We get a deal o’ useless things about us, only because we’ve got the money to spend.
—George Eliot, 1860No nation was ever ruined by trade.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1774Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.
—Mark Twain, 1873Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
—Aphra Behn, 1677Trade is a social act.
—John Stuart Mill, 1859A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773Wants keep pace with wealth always.
—Timothy Titcomb, 1859Peace is a natural effect of trade.
—Montesquieu, 1748Profit is profit even in Mecca.
—Nigerian proverbSome 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.
—Barbara Ehrenreich, 2008One man’s loss is another man’s profit.
—Michel de Montaigne, c. 1580