Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. – Thomas Jefferson
We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is a creature composed of countless millions of cells: a microbe is composed of only one, yet throughout the ages the two have been in ceaseless conflict. – A.B. Christie
From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness–a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbors wife. – Thomas Babington Macaulay
