Commerce has made all winds her ministers.

Everyone lives by selling something.

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities.

It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.

Trade is a social act.

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

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

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.

A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.

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

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

Business is other people’s money.