#trade

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#among #beings #call #concealment #convinced

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#congress #errs #everything #fifty #hour

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#expense #first #forehead #generals #good

China has made important contribution to the world economy in terms of total economic output and trade, and the RMB has played a role in the world economic development. But making the RMB an international currency will be a fairly long process. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#contribution #currency #development #economic #economic development

In this day and age when we do so much business in foreign trade, we need the ability to identify trace an animal very quickly, identifying where it came from - where it has been, and where it is at today. ↗

— Mike Johanns

#age #animal #been #business #came

The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection. ↗

— Mike Johanns

#consumer #goal #protection #relations #science

I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs. ↗

— Gary Johnson

#afghanistan #angry #been #cap #decision

In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#contributes #economic #garment #hand #other

The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#constant #field #higher #higher standard #industry

I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#bills #buffalo #i #learned #market