“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Money, not morality, is the principle of commerce and commercial nations”
“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none.”
“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
“Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.”
Patrick Henry
