By relinquishing the trade monopoly of our colonies, we shall only give up a miserable privilege against the privilege of trading with the entire world.
Category: Colonisation
SECOND CAMPAIGN OF THE LEAGUE
This portion of labour which is used to meet an aim cannot be, at the same time, devoted to another.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
We are always ready to succor the unfortunate, she says, but that is no reason why the law should generate unfortunate people.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
Two fertile sources of income were made available to the younger sons: the Treasury and the colonial system.
ARMING GREAT BRITAIN
We are deeply convinced that free-trade creates the harmony of interests and peace between nations.
ABOUT THE INFLUENCE OF FRENCH AND ENGLISH TARIFFS
Hence, a prohibitive regime is a permanent source of war; I would even say that, nowadays, it is almost the only one.
LETTERS TO RICHARD COBDEN
The whole structure of monopoly will collapse, including the Colonial System.
10. ALGERIA.
However, I cannot refrain from making a general observation. Presumption is always unfavorable to collective expenditure carried out through taxes.
19. – ANTEDILUVIAN SUGAR.
But when we have gone down the wrong road for so long, it is childish to refuse to join the right road because it will cause some discomfort.
16. – MAKING A MOUNTAIN OUT OF A MOLEHILL.
As economic facts act and react on one another, in turn becoming cause and effect, it must be agreed that they present an undeniable complication.
8. – THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE GENERALS.
What predominates in this passage is the idea that France loses the total value of the products she imports from abroad.
XV. – THE FREE TRADER’S LITTLE ARSENAL.
All injustice is of benefit to someone […]; to defend injustice on the grounds of the inconvenience that its abolition will cause the person who benefits from it, is to say that an injustice should be eternal for the sole reason that it has existed for an instant.
XIV. – A CONFLICT OF PRINCIPLES.
Protectionist systems, colonial systems: these are therefore just two aspects of the same theory.