#trade

Trade protection accumulates upon a single point the good which it effects, while the evil inflicted is infused throughout the mass. The one strikes the eye at a first glance, while the other becomes perceptible only to close investigation. ↗

— Frédéric Bastiat

#free-trade #libertarian #logical-thinking #economy

I'm a passionate trade unionist. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#passionate #trade #unionist

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him. ↗

— Ernest Bevin

#change #conservative #him #man #most

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community. ↗

— Joe Biden

#again #american #american spirit #attack #blood

Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#clearly #cost #down #foreign #foreign trade

Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#assume #been #bring #cheaply #either

I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined. ↗

— Frank Black

#because #been #beyond #command #defined

There were thousands of abolitionists who were free traders. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#free #thousands #traders #were #who

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation. ↗

— Bette Davis

#becomes #creation #insight #just #trade

In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade. ↗

— Evan Davis

#components #consumer #exports #investment #main