Ending the slave trade was contrary to British economic interests. For all its limitations and hypocrisies - British slavery itself, of course, still continued to exist - I still think it was a great moment in human history.
I've never denied my sexual orientation. I just don't make a point of it. It isn't what I do. Clearly, I'm known for the work I've done on trade and Social Security.
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder.
Our great civilization, here in America and across the civilized world has come upon a moment of reckoning. We've seen it in the United Kingdom, where they voted to liberate themselves from global government and global trade deal, and global immigration deals that have destroyed their sovereignty and have destroyed many of those nations.
The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection.
When you ask people, do they believe that we ought to have trade, I think people understand it's important.
The assertion that everyone benefits simultaneously from free trade is simply incorrect.
I often wonder why the West is much more interested in aid deliveries than in fair trade, for example. The fair exchange of goods would place far more money into the hands of the affected people than relief operations.
I'm going to have a special prosecutor. We're going to enforce the trade deals we have, and we're going to hold people accountable.
Cap and trade is a sledge hammer to freedom.
If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.
I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout
In Sharia, nobody will be able to sell pork publicly. Nobody will be drinking alcohol. Pornography will be banned. Gambling will be banned. In terms of the economy, the wealth which is not tangible, either good or deficit, things like insurance, pension, stocks, shares, etc. , they will be prohibited because you're supposed to deal with things, which are goods, which you can see, which you can trade with.
I wish my brother would learn a trade, so I would know what kind of work he's out of.
In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble to the Constitution, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and almost all of the Boy Scout Oath. Now exactly what picture were you planning to trade for all that?
It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.
After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now.
Self-interest leads to honing your skills, the better to trade with.
The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.