Free trade Quote by Scott Anderson

“It was only after the Second World War that the US – with its industrial supremacy now unchallenged – liberalized its trade and started…

— Ha-Joon Chang

“We must never forget that the settlement of what is now the United States was only part of a larger enterprise. And this was…

— Paul Johnson

“Part of the difficulty in accepting the good news about trade is in our words. We too often talk about trade while using the…

— Ronald Reagan

“Eventually the United States became the latter arsenal and bank of the allies, and acquired a direct interest in allied victory that was to…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Nevertheless, the idea that the bankrupt Europeans, who had already put the world through the wringer of two world wars in less than three…

— Yanis Varoufakis

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“After all, the two issues on which the United States formally declared war—America’s trade rights as a neutral in the ongoing European wars and…

— Troy Bickham

“By 1971 the United States had an unfavorable balance of international trade for the first time since 1893.”

— James T. Patterson

“And shall we at last become the victims of our own abominable lust of gain? Forbid it, Heaven." Washington himself could be a hard…

— Ron Chernow

“As I now see it, America had no business involving itself in a series of distant convulsions where the ideas, variously interpreted, of a…

— Martin Amis

Free trade holds much of the blame for continued international conflict. Markets are said to possess wisdom that is somehow superior to man. Those…

— Anita Roddick

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