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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Thomas Jefferson

president of the United States from 1801 to 1809

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

Walter Bagehot

The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.

Florence Kelley

American activist (1859-1932)

And you know, art as commerce, doesn’t really make too much sense, they don’t go together.

Talib Kweli

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Anita Brookner

English novelist and art historian (1928-2016)

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

George Canning

British Prime Minister, statesman, and politician (1770-1827)

Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel.

Jim Ryun

American politician and athletics competitor; U.S. Congressman from Kansas

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

J. Edgar Hoover

American law enforcement administrator (1895-1972)

It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.

Henry Charles Carey

American economist and publisher

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Caleb Colton

British priest and writer

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