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“As the United States chains itself down with greater debt, China is building relationships across the globe to bolster its trade, its access to natural resources, and its energy consumption. In far too many cases, this means lost opportunities for America and our businesses.”

“I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart.”

Heart Struggle Greater Importance Trade Unions Trade Unions

Author:Leon Jouhaux

“Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a free and peaceful society--but the educated citizen has a special responsibility by the virtue of his greater understanding. For whether he has ever studied history or current events, ethics or civics, the rules of a profession or the tools of a trade, he knows that only a respect for the law makes it possible for free men to dwell together in peace and progress.”

“One of the proven ways of getting workers more involved with their jobs is by dovetailing employee profit-sharing and stock ownership plans with greater responsibility sharing... Trade unions in this country should... consider these arrangements much more carefully than they have up to now... Expanded employee profit participation and stock ownership would provide workers with a greater measure of economic and social independence, thus stimulating increased productivity.”

“With fewer and fewer corporations controlling more and more of the world's trade, there is an ever greater need to know more about the practices of these large faceless organizations.”

Knows World Needs Practice Greater Organization Trade Corporations Fewer Globalization Faceless

Author:Anita Roddick

“The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.”

World Steps Greater Economic Trade Valuable Critical Agreement Progressive Establishment Integration Free Trade Trade Agreements Economic Integration

Author:Dan Kildee

“One of the reforms to be carried out during the incoming administration is a change in our monetary and banking laws, so as to secure greater elasticity in the forms of currency available for trade and to prevent the limitations of law from operating to increase the embarrassment of a financial panic.”

Form Law Greater Increase Trade Financial Available Secure Administration Reform Limitation Panic Currency Banking Embarrassment Monetary Elasticity

Book:Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

Source: Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

“When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.”

Natural Greater Effects Trade Profit Prosperity Complaining Decay Employed Diminish Merchants

Book:The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Source: The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

“When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.”

Happens Greater Ordinary Trade Errors Profit Trading Dealer

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling processes involve a trade-off of costs and benefits. In general, the more finely the sorting is done, the greater the benefits - and the costs... Sorting and labeling, whether of people or of things, is a sorting and labeling of probabilities rather than of certainties.”

People Done Social Process Greater Cost Activity Benefits Trade Certainty Probability Labeling Sorting Trade Offs

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment in the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glory than that of the honest workingman.”

Men House Principles Greater Honest Return Exercise Glory Training Trade Killing Shoes Our Time Guarantees Justify Clothings Patriot Equipment Murderer Wholesale Anti Patriotism

Book:Living My Life

Source: Living My Life

“Free trade has been proven, time and again, as a reliable path to economic development. It pushes the public and private sectors alike toward greater accountability and transparency. It lifts people out of poverty, and while it can force unsettling changes on a society, those changes prove to be worthwhile in a very short time.”