Henry Charles Carey Quotes

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• The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine…
• The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the…
• It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from…
• In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency…
• The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey; that but that of the protected countries does increase, as…
• In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system…
• It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.
• By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are…
• Wherever it is resisted, slaver dies away and freedom grows.
• Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if…
• From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and…
• To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.
• Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science.
• The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of…
• By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects,…
• In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it…
• Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.
• The natural consequence of our submission, even in part, to the system that looks to compelling the export of raw products, the exhaustion of the…
• As regards this country, in which protection has always to some extent existed, it is the best customer that England ever had, and our demands…

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