Edmund Burke Quotes About Trade

Quotes about: Trade

• Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

  Edmund Burke

  Justice, Trade, Free Trade

  "Thoughts and Details on Scarcity" by Edmund Burke, 1795.

• Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence, because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature.

  Edmund Burke

  Coffee, Taken, Party

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1455, Delphi Classics

• The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

  Edmund Burke

  World, Wealth, Rich

  Edmund Burke, Harvey C. Mansfield (1984). “Selected Letters of Edmund Burke”, p.406, University of Chicago Press

• Instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree, and, to take more shame to ourselves, we cherish them because they are prejudices; and the longer they have lasted and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Age, Casting

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