To base the opposite truth is the mean of routing out a mistake.
Category: Trade Balance
TO THE MINISTER FOR AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE
We shall spread the principle of freedom when others will preach the principle of protection. Truth will emerge from the debate.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
Trade being an exchange of equal values, a nation that refuses to buy cannot sell, and all restrictions to imports constitute an obstacle to exports.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
The criterion for the prosperity of a country is not its exports but its imports.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
We are falling for the fear that the foreigner, out of sudden philanthropy, would flood us with wheat, sugar, wines, etc.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
I believe that we are requested to do unto others what we would have them do unto ourselves.
SIR DE NOAILLES AT THE CHAMBER OF PEERS
Imports by the people are for their use, and exports allow to pay for their use.
THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA
Buying or lending, these are the only two ways of using money.
THE NATURE OF EXCHANGES
These questions are very much twisted by being wrong about the causes, or by mistaking the effects for the causes.
THE ENGLISH LEAGUE AND THE GERMAN LEAGUE
Prosperity in Germany cannot be attributed to the simultaneous actions of two opposite principles.
ABOUT THE EXPORT OF CASH
A scourge is a calamity. It would not be if one would be richer after it occurs than before.
ABOUT THE FREE ENTRY OF FOREIGN CATTLE
When considering food, the main point is to have some, not to produce it through this or that process.
ABOUT THE INFLUENCE OF FRENCH AND ENGLISH TARIFFS
It is not quite certain that retaliation is not as dire to those who implement it as to those against whom it is implemented.
THE BALANCE OF TRADE
However, when lawmakers tax and prohibit trade, if their ideas are hopelessly wrong, this error has to become the general rule of conduct of a great nation.
18. – THE MAYOR OF ÉNIOS.
I myself used to say that men would ruin themselves if they were left to barter freely!
VII. – A CHINESE TALE.
I can see that, in a little while, we will be short of everything, because we will no longer have any need to make anything.
XVI. – BLOCKED RIVERS PLEADING IN FAVOR OF THE PROHIBITIONISTS.
For the channeling of the Garonne would encourage the invasion of products from Toulouse to the detriment of Bordeaux and the flooding of products from Bordeaux to the detriment of Toulouse.
XV. – MORE RECIPROCITY.
Is it not ludicrous that you are already inflicting this regime on the nation for fear that it will run the risk of reaching it one day without you?
X. – RECIPROCITY.
Let us therefore sign commercial treaties on the basis of an equitable reciprocity, let us make concessions in return for concessions, and let us make the sacrifice of buying in order to obtain the benefit of selling.
IX. – AN IMMENSE DISCOVERY.
Frankly, is it not somewhat humiliating for the nineteenth century to prepare a spectacle of childishness such as this for future ages with such imperturbable seriousness?
VIII. – DIFFERENTIAL DUTIES.
For all the deputies, ministers, and journalists agree on this point, that the more a people receive in exchange for a given quantity of their products, the poorer they become.
VI. – THE BALANCE OF TRADE.
Combating the balance of trade, I will be told, is like tilting at windmills.