British Quote by Linda Colley

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

— Benjamin Franklin

“By comparison, the dispossession and destruction of Indigenous populations—which the Society, for one, consistently linked to slavery—was largely ignored by the public. For the…

— Stefanos Geroulanos

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

— Benjamin Franklin

The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for…

— Ezra Stiles

We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much less globalization now than we did then.

— Milton Friedman

“Doesn't an Indian tribe finally surrender to colonization by becoming as capitalistic as our conquerors? Isn't indigenous economic sovereignty one of the sneakiest damn…

— Sherman Alexie

The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.

— Kim Jong Il

Whatever market for manufactured goods emerged in colonial and dependent countries did not become the "eternal market" of these countries. Thrown wide open by…

— Paul A. Baran

Free trade is the serial killer of American manufacturing and the Trojan Horse of world government. It is the primrose path to the loss…

— Pat Buchanan

The truth is that the free movement of goods, people, and money that developed under British hegemony between 1870 and 1913 - the first…

— Ha-Joon Chang

Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global…

— Wendell Berry

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

— Dean Acheson