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Quotes from The Advantages of Peace and Commerce; With Some Remarks on the East-India Trade — Daniel Defoe

1660–1731 England

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To know Trade then is to know the World: And I may farther observe, That if any one Nation could govern Trade, that Nation would govern the World; could it give Laws to the Commerce, it would give Laws to the People, and the whole World would be its Dependents and Subjects.

The Advantages of Peace and Commerce; With Some Remarks on the East-India Trade (1729)

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