Quotes about Commerce

vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry.

Wail, O dwellers of the Hollow, for all your merchants will be silenced; all who weigh out silver will be cut off.

Once or twice, the merchants and those who sell all kinds of goods camped outside Jerusalem,

The men of Beth-togarmah exchanged horses, war horses, and mules for your wares.

You can sell us food to eat and water to drink in exchange for silver. Only let us pass through on foot,

Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?

Because of your many products and your great wealth of goods, Damascus traded with you wine from Helbon, wool from Zahar,

Haran, Canneh, and Eden traded with you, and so did the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad.

The merchants of Sheba and Raamah traded with you; for your wares they exchanged gold, the finest of all spices, and precious stones.

The merchants who sold these things and grew their wealth from her will stand at a distance, in fear of her torment. They will weep and mourn,

Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.

They agreed to make ships to go to Tarshish, and these were built in Ezion-geber.