 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 630 lapas
...and monarchy, in preference to their own country and its constitution. But merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so...strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 636 lapas
...and monarchy, in preference to their own country and its constitution. But merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so...strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance... | |
 | 1898 - 828 lapas
...politics. Some of them seem to merit the remark of Thomas Jefferson, that " merchants have no country. The spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains." Aristotle says that commerce "is incompatible with that dignified life which it is our wish... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 lapas
...monarchy, in preference to their own country and its constitutions. But merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so...strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 lapas
...the World furnishes no other example. MERCHANTS have no country. The mere spot on which they stand does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs - 1972 - 786 lapas
...after observing the practices of the businessmen of his day. He wrote : "Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so...strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains." Operating in many countries, the international corporations acknowledge loyalty to none and... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - 1973 - 500 lapas
...Jefferson, observing the practice of the businessmen of his day, wrote : Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so...strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. The validity and current applicability of that generalization has been strikingly demonstrated... | |
 | Bertram M. Gross - 1980 - 450 lapas
...After serving two terms as president, Jefferson explained this phenomenon: "Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so...strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."" I think I understand the kinds and roots of false patriotism today. Some years ago Francis... | |
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But merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. 
