Henry Charles Carey Quotes

• The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Philosophy, Exercise, Men

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The slave trade, domestic and foreign: why it exists, and how it may be extinguished”, p.364

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• Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Men, Molecules, Social

  Henry Charles Carey (1872). “Manual of Social Science: Being a Condensation of the "Principles of Social Science" of H.C. Carey, LL.D.”, p.37

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• By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Men, People, Chinese

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.392

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• The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Numbers, Law, Population

  Henry Charles Carey (1851). “The Harmony of Interests, Agricultural, Manufacturing, and Commercial”, p.63

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• From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Feelings, Slavery, Abandonment

  Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365

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• It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Facts, Protection, Said

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.392

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• In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Country, Slavery, Ratios

  Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365

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• It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Country, World, Slavery

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The slave trade, domestic and foreign: why it exists, and how it may be extinguished”, p.364

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• Wherever it is resisted, slaver dies away and freedom grows.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Umpires, Grows, Dies

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• To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Workout, Exercise, Men

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The slave trade, domestic and foreign: why it exists, and how it may be extinguished”, p.393

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• In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Years, Tariffs, Protection

  Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365

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• The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey; that but that of the protected countries does increase, as has been shown in the case of Spain, and can now be shown in that of Germany.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Country, Turkeys, India

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.392

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• Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Virginia, Population, Slave

  Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365

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