The sea serves the pirate as well as the trader.

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

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

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.

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

Colonialism has meant selling our ore and being left with the holes.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

There is no profit without another’s loss.

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

One man’s loss is another man’s profit.

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

Exchange is no robbery.

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