 | William Huskisson - Currency question - 1810 - 200 pages
...more to answer than the most envious of our neighbours. Our true policy would surely be to profess, as the object and guide of our commercial system,...expense of the other. This is a purpose at which, if it were practicable, we ought not to aim ; and which, if we aimed at it, we could not accomplish. Let... | |
 | 1811 - 566 pages
...think, more to answer than the most envious of our neighbours. Our true policy would be to profess, as the object and guide of our commercial system,...subject must know to be the true principle of commerce ; — ihe interchange oj'rrcifirocal and equivalent benefit. We may rest assured that it is not in... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...our riches to what is called the balance of trade.'' " Our true policy would surely be to profess, as the object and guide of our commercial system,...expense of the other. This is a purpose at which, if it were practicable, we ought not to aim; and which, if we aimed at, we could not accomplish." These... | |
 | William Huskisson - Great Britain - 1831 - 626 pages
...more to answer than the most envious of our neighbours. Our true policy would surely be to profess, as the object and guide of our commercial system,...expense of the other. This is a purpose at which, if it were practicable, we ought not to aim ; and which, if we aimed at it, we could not accomplish. Let... | |
 | William Huskisson - 1831 - 632 pages
...more to answer than the most envious of our neighbours. Our true policy would surely be to profess, as the object and guide of our commercial system,...commerce ;—the interchange of reciprocal and equivalent beneJit. We may rest assured that it is not in the nature of commerce to enrich one party at the expense... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1848 - 514 pages
...our riches to what is called the balance of trade." " Our true policy .would surely be to profess, as the object and guide of our commercial system,...commerce, the interchange of reciprocal and equivalent bcmfit. We may rest assured that it is not in the nature of commerce to enrich one party at the expense... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1853 - 574 pages
...of our riches to what is called the balance of trade." " Our true policy would surely be to profess, as the object and guide of our commercial system,...expense of the other. This is a purpose at which, if it were practicable, we ought not to aim ; and which, if we aimed at, we could not accomplish." These... | |
 | Joseph Gales - United States - 1824 - 872 pages
...to what is called the balance of trade." "Our true policy would surely be to profess, u the oliject and guide of our commercial system, that which every...of reciprocal and equivalent benefit. We may rest assored that it is not in the nature of commerce to enrich one party at the expense of the other. This... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Banks and banking - 1857 - 718 pages
...more to answer than the most envious of our neighbours. Our true policy would surely be to profess, as the object and guide of our commercial system,...of reciprocal and equivalent benefit. We may rest assurred that it is not in the nature of commerce to enrich one party at the expense of the other.... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Protectionism - 1864 - 480 pages
...were purchased, then the voyage would not have been profitable. He quoted from a British statesman, that " it is not in the nature of commerce to enrich one party at the expense of the other." Intimately connected with this topic, said Mr. W., is another, the exportation of specie, so much complained... | |
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Our true policy would surely be to profess, as the object and guide of our commercial system, that which every man who has studied the subject, must know to be the true principle of commerce, the interchange of reciprocal and equivalent benefit. We may... 
