"We rail at trade, but the historian..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.”

“Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.”

“A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.”

“India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.”

“It would be good for the workers in Vietnam even as it helps make sure that they're not undercutting competition here in the United States.”

“When we rise in the morning... at the table we drink coffee which is provided to us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African; before we leave for our jobs we are already beholden to more than half the world.”

“We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.”

“No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.”

“Will is wish, and liberty is power.”