Everyone lives by selling something.

We get a deal o’ useless things about us, only because we’ve got the money to spend.

Profit is profit even in Mecca.

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

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

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

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.