A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

Benjamin Franklin

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Been Ever Nation Ruined Trade

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Benjamin Franklin
American - Politician
January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Benjamin Franklin

Our nation's attitudes toward trade have been shaped by the evolving struggle over who has been helped and who has been disadvantaged by trade policy as our economy has developed.

Danny K. Davis

Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.

Jeff Goodell

It is not that the people want a BJP government or Modi as PM. The Nation wants to teach a lesson to those who have ruined the nation.

Narendra Modi

More people have been ruined by their upright friends than ever have been by their enemies!

Leslie Ford

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Edward Heath

If your wife's hairdo has ever been ruined by a ceiling fan, you might be a redneck.

Jeff Foxworthy

Today, there are more Americans working than ever before in the history of our Nation, and the average wage of those workers is higher than it has ever been in the history of our Nation.

Todd Tiahrt

Americas largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner.

Jo Ann Emerson

My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . . If it had not been for the justice of our cause, and the consequent interposition of Providence, in which we had faith, we must have been ruined. If I had ever before been an atheist, I should now have been convinced of the being and government of a Deity!

Benjamin Franklin

The story is framed around [avid Petraeus] resignation. So many headlines that followed talked about his ruined career. They completely ignore the fact that my career was ruined, other peoples' careers were ruined. They focus on him as the victim.

Paula Broadwell

I think, as a nation, we didn't learn our lessons from the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. We should have been more careful in a whole host of areas.

Raymond Kelly

As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.