“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none.”
Thomas Jefferson
“If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest”
“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.”
“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”
“Money, not morality, is the principle of commerce and commercial nations”
“When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.”
William Blake
“Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves”
Oliver Goldsmith
