No nation was ever ruined by trade.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.
A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.
There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.
No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.