To harm others is to harm ourselves; to spread obstacles, tariffs, coalitions, or wars along the path of others is to obstruct our own progress.
Category: War
PEACE AND FREEDOM
All this proves to us that, while the minds of governments are full of war, those of the governed are full of peace
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.
XVII. – DOMINATION THROUGH WORK.
To have less iron because you work less and more iron in spite of working less are situations that are more than different; they are quite opposite to one another.
XXII. – METAPHORS.
The meaning of three or four words is altered, strained, and degraded, and this says it all.
XIX. – NATIONAL INDEPENDANCE.
I am fully aware that I will be blamed (for this is the current fashion) for resting fraternity between nations on self-interest, vile and prosaic interest.
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.
XIV. – A CONFLICT OF PRINCIPLES.
Protectionist systems, colonial systems: these are therefore just two aspects of the same theory.
V. – OUR PRODUCTS ARE WEIGHED DOWN WITH TAXES.
I would like to be told what the great standing armies and the powerful navies would be used for if trade were free.