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Commerce Quotes by James Madison
- Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to…
- I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive…
- The defect of power in the existing confederacy, to regulate the commerce between its several members is in the number of those which have been…
- The regulation of commerce, it is true, is a new power; but that seems to be an addition which few oppose and from which no…
- We have the self-evident right to regulate our trade according to our own will and our own interest . . . . This right can…
- It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and…
- What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before…
- The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are…
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- Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
- Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. — Francis Bacon
- I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to… — Joe Barton
- For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. — Charles Baudelaire
- Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online. — Jeff Bezos
- Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter… — Daniel Boone
- In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to… — Les Brown
- The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy.… — James Buchan
- The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the… — James Buchan
- Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. — Anthony Burgess
- In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal… — George Canning
- A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce… — John Jay Chapman