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It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

Thomas Carlyle

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Fascism recognises the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade-unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which diverent interests are coordinated and harmonised in the unity of the State.

Benito Mussolini

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

Thomas Paine

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Charles de Montesquieu

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

John Ruskin

At every level in Washington, people are talking about that and looking for . . . another secure document that would not inhibit or impede trade or legitimate travellers across our country.

David Wilkins

Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war.

John Bright

Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade.

William Cowper

Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region.

Leonard Cohen

Peace comes with trust, which will grow from continuing efforts toward mutual understanding and trade, Romeo-and-Juliet-style marriages, conversations,negotiations, and individual commitments.

Robert C. Solomon

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.

John Kenneth Galbraith

No man forgets his original trade: the rights of nations and of kings sink into questions of grammar, if grammarians discuss them.

Samuel Johnson

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

Elbert Hubbard

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

Rita Mae Brown

First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Martin Niemˆller

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all tradesî

Mark Twain

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade: today it is the reverse.

Joseph Roux

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

Dean William R. Inge

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour

Thomas Jefferson

I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

John Poindexter

By pursuing his own interest [every individual] frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good

Adam Smith

These guys actually have some degree of sophistication as far as practicing their trade. They are becoming proficient in the use of their weapons.

Ron Holvey

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade... there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.

Nathaniel Branden

War is the trade of Kings.

John Dryden

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