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Commerce is the most important activity on the face of the earth. It is the foundation on which civilization is built. Religion, society, education—all have their roots in business, and would have to be reorganized in their material aspects should business fail.—JAMES R. ADAMS, More Power to Advertising
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A well regulated commerce is not like law, physic, or divinity, to be over stocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors.—ADDISON
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Our cargoes of meat, drink and cloaths beat the Dutch.—ANONYMOUS
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It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth, as even the love of truth itself.—C. N. BOVEE
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When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.—BURKE, Conciliation with America
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Commerce may well be termed the younger sister for, in all emergencies she looks to agriculture both for defense and for supply.—C. C. COLTON
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The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.—WILL DURANT, The Life of Greece
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Commerce has made all winds her messengers; all climes her tributaries; all her people her servants.—TRYON EDWARDS
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The extension of trade is a matter of tariffs rather than of war, and in any case the trade of a country with its own acquisitions by conquest is a comparatively insignificant portion of its total trade.—HAVELOCK ELLIS, The Task of Social Hygiene
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The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing from where it abounds, to where it is costly.—EMERSON, Conduct of Life
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Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.—EMERSON, Essays
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Commerce is a kind of spring, which, diverted from its natural channel, ceases to flow. There are but two things which invite foreigners—profit and convenience. If you render commerce less convenient, or less gainful, they will insensibly forsake you.—FENELON, Telemachus
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No nation was ever ruined by trade.—FRANKLIN, Thoughts, on Commercial Subjects
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Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails,
And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.—GOLDSMITH, The Traveller
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Commerce is no missionary to carry more or better than you have at home. But what you have at home, be it gospel, or be it drunkenness, commerce carries the world over.—EDWARD E. HALE
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You dare not make war on cotton. Cotton is king.—JAMES H. HAMMOND
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Perish commerce. Let the constitution live!—GEORGE HARDKINGE
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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce, as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.—PATRICK HENRY
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Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.—ROBERT INGERSOLL
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The merchant has no country.—JEFFERSON
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Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.—MACAULAY, On Mitford's History of Greece
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Trade knows neither friends nor kindred.—Proverb
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There needs a long apprenticeship to understand the mystery of the world's trade.—Proverb
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A merchant's happiness hangs upon chance, winds, and waves.—Proverb
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Trade is the mother of money.—Proverb
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A handful of trade is a handful of gold.—Proverb
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Hence Commerce springs, the venal interchange
Of all that human art or Nature yield.—SHELLEY, Queen Mab
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Commerce! beneath whose poison-breathing shade
No solitary virtue dares to spring,
But Poverty and Wealth with equal hand
Scatter their withering curses.—SHELLEY, Queen Mab
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"The romance of modern commerce, George!" my uncle would say, rubbing his hands together and drawing in air through his teeth. "The romance of modern commerce, eh? Conquest. Province by Province. Like sogers."—H. G. WELLS, Tono-Bungay
