The merchant has no country

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Topics: Trade Quotes

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good...

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good...

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans,...

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans,...

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true...

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true...

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is...

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is...

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more...

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more...

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is...

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is...

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel...

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel...

In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and...

In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and...

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

Every generation needs a new revolution.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and...

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and...

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing...

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing...

We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present...

We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present...