Mercantile Quotes

11 quotes by 10 authors

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil,… — Lord Byron
[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without… — James Madison
It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil I… — Thomas Jefferson
The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in… — Henry Morton Stanley
They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next. — Lauren Willig
Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York. — Andre Balazs
The mercantile business did not suit me — John James Audubon
Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical… — Friedrich Nietzsche
American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth. Their mercantile empire… — Rick Atkinson
The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial. — James Stephens

Who Wrote These Mercantile Quotes

10 authors contributed a total of 11 Mercantile Quotes as follows: