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The Cathedral of Commerce

– Bishop of New York

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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

– Gore Vidal

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According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhis, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.

– Jimmy Carter

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

– Patrick Henry

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Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

– Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer give life. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. These in their massive manner of steel and stone say, Come unto me all ye who labor, and we will give you work.

– Seán O'Casey

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Wars of extermination, engaged in by people pursuing commerce and all industrial pursuits, are expensive even against the weakest people, and are demoralizing and wicked.

– Ulysses S. Grant

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The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.

– Lyndon B. Johnson

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The [Interstate Commerce] commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.

– Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president

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I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

– J. Edgar Hoover

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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

– John Adams

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Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

– Anthony Burgess

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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

– Thomas Jefferson

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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

– Gaston Bachelard

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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

– Anita Brookner

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Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

– Antonin Scalia

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