Henry Charles Carey famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.
-- Henry Charles Carey

#Exercise #Men #Firsts
To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.
-- Henry Charles Carey

#Workout #Exercise #Men
From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.
-- Henry Charles Carey

#Feelings #Slavery #Abandonment
Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.
-- Henry Charles Carey

#Virginia #Population #Slave
Wherever it is resisted, slaver dies away and freedom grows.
-- Henry Charles Carey

#Grows
By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.
-- Henry Charles Carey

#Men #People #Chinese
It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.
-- Henry Charles Carey

#Facts #Protection #Said
In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.
-- Henry Charles Carey

#Years #Tariffs #Protection
The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey; that but that of the protected countries does increase, as has been shown in the case of Spain, and can now be shown in that of Germany.
-- Henry Charles Carey

#Country #Turkeys #India
In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.
-- Henry Charles Carey

#Country #Slavery #Ratios
It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.
-- Henry Charles Carey

#Country #World #Slavery
The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.
-- Henry Charles Carey

#Law #Numbers #Population
Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science.
-- Henry Charles Carey

#Men #Molecules #Social

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