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With foreign officials come foreign merchants, and with foreign merchants come foreign soldiers. They will usurp our authority and influence to begin with, and in the course of time, our guests will have become our hosts.

When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

The more borders we have, the more quarrels, the more wars. That's one way to think about borders - they're trouble.

Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

All those trucks and barges that carry our goods to port are vital connections to the only force which can balance our trade deficit: export. We must keep doing what we do best if we are going to get America out of the red.

There is a feeling within our system that defence equipment can't be made here and should be imported. I wanted to break this myth, so we spent our money and made a product to prove we have capability in this country, so don't just brush us aside.

Fences work and the walls work and separations work. They afford to any nation the delay of entry.