Agriculture, manufactures, commerce and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it’s liberty and interests by the most lasting bands

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it’s liberty and interests by the most lasting bands

The road of isolationism and protectionism ... ends in danger and decline. I am for free commerce with all nations, political connection with none.

Money, not morality, is the principle of commerce and commercial nations

The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion of principle but that of gain