We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much…

The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.

— Wilson Greatbatch

Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress.

— Francois Bourguignon

The benefits of freer trade, such as job creation, lower inflation, and greater consumer choice, are often invisible or only partly visible.

— Richard N. Haass

“By making people richer, especially in the world’s poorest countries, freer trade would also lead to societies far more resilient to climate shocks, more…

— Bjorn Lomborg

The Internet is the most effective instrument we have for globalization.

— Milton Friedman

“The Victorian era was an age of superlatives and larger-than-life characters, and as far as that goes, Dr. Wildman Whitehouse fit right in: what…

— Neal Stephenson

. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that…

— James A. Michener

If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many…

— Alan Moore

If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you…

— Zygmunt Bauman

By tracing the careers of the four members of the Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder has found a wonderful way not just to tell…

— Tom Standage

Like the railroads that brought us together in the 19th century, these trails will bring us together in the 20th and 21st centuries. (at…

— Hillary Clinton

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of…

— Anonymous

“Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The…

— Henry Adams

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

— Glen Duncan

Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though…

— Rosemary Mahoney