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Quotes of the Day for 17 November 2004 - Trade

On this day in 1993 the House of Representatives approved the North American Free Trade Agreement. There are those who thought it was a bad idea, and there still are. Being from the northwest, where we have been involved in trade since the earliest days and where our largest manufacturers (Boeing and PacCar) build the vehicles that make trade possible, I may have a certain bias in this regard. But I maintain it's the best way to create wealth for all nations and all peoples.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.
     - Benjamin Franklin, 1706 - 1790

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
     - Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas; the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
     - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, 1841 - 1935

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
     - Simone Weil, 1909 - 1943

The philosopher and lover of man have much harm to say of trade; but the historian will see that trade was the principle of Liberty; that trade planted America and destroyed Feudalism; that it makes peace and keeps peace, and it will abolish slavery.
     - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882

Alliance, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
     - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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