Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.

Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.

No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw a flock of birds, of which two or three were swimming in grease, and the others all skin and bone.

The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.

The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income depended upon the number of head he could keep for their increase.

Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in contact, be they few or many. How far that influence, thus perpetuated, may extend, it is not given to him here to see.

Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.