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I believe that on the general principle of free-trade there is now no great difference of opinion, and that all agree in the general rule that we should purchase in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest.

— Robert Peel

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You might on moral and social grounds prefer cornfields to cotton factories, an agricultural to a manufacturing population.

The principles which should govern the commercial intercourse of nations, do not differ from those which regulate the dealings of private individuals.

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I think there is a gentlemanlike policy which nations as well as individuals would do well to adopt.

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