Blockading squadrons are a means whereby nations seek to prevent their enemies from trading; protective tariffs are a means whereby nations attempt to prevent their own people from trading. What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.

Unless there be correct thought, there cannot be any action, and when there is correct thought, right action will follow.

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.