"Although Liberal and Realist theory may have you believe that trade policy and foreign policy are separate disciplines, history bears out instead that soft power infrastructure and the logistics therein can make or break hard power offensives."
"Government has not only the right, but it is its duty, to promote everything which may increase the wealth and power of the nation"
"He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity."
“[M]onuments had come to be regarded only as so much bullion, and every provincial governor or barbarian king would be tempted to reduce them to metal, in order that, upon recoining them, his own upstart image might shine in the glass that had once reflected a Romulus, a Caesar”
"In reading certain Economists, one might be led to think that the products of industry were not made for man, but that man was made for the products"