No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Trade’s proud empire hastes to swift decay.

Exchange is no robbery.

The period is not very remote when the benefits of a liberal and free commerce will, pretty generally, succeed to the devastations and horrors of war.

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

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

The sea serves the pirate as well as the trader.

There is no profit without another’s loss.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Business is other people’s money.

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

Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain distinction and animosity between nations.

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