If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
Thomas Jefferson

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
Thomas Jefferson

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.
Barack Obama

We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'
Warren Buffett

No nation was ever ruined by trade.
Benjamin Franklin

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
Henry David Thoreau

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
Jim Morrison

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
Jackie Robinson

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
George Bernard Shaw

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
Bette Davis

Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?
Bill Maher

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.
Joe Biden

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
Albert Camus

Advertising is the life of trade.
Calvin Coolidge

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
William Faulkner

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.
Jim Carrey

Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.
Marlene Dietrich

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
Edmund Burke

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.
William Butler Yeats