Manufactures Quotes
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But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about.
Adam Smith— Chapter IV, p. 448
The effect of trade and commerce with respect to most civilized states is to send out of their countries what the poor, that is, the great mass of mankind, have occasion for, and to bring back, in return, what is consumed almost wholly bya small part of those nations, viz. the rich. Hence it appears that the greater part of manufactures, trade and commerce is highly injurious to the poor as being the chief means of depriving them of the necessaries of life.
— 1805 The Effects of Civilization on the People in European States.
The people are beginning to fear that the Irish Government is merely a machinery for their destruction; that, for all the usual functions of Government, this Castle-nuisance is altogether powerless; that it is unable, or unwilling, to take a single step for the prevention of famine, for the encouragement of manufactures, or providing fields of industry, and is only active in promoting, by high premiums and bounties, the horrible manufacture of crimes!
john mitchel— Article in The Nation newspaper on 8 November,1845, titled "The Detectives",on the Administration of Government in Ireland
Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality predominates... But in the nursery, play-ground, fields, gardens, workshops, manufactures, museums and class-rooms. …The facts collected from all these sources will be concentrated, explained, discussed, made obvious to all, and shown in their direct application to practice in all the business of life.
Robert Owen— 3rd Part (The Book of the New Moral World (1836-1844))
Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.
Adam Smith— Chapter VII, p. 72
It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.
Adam Smith— Chapter XI, Part III, (Conclusion..) p. 282
Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.
george mason— August 22 (Debates in the Federal Convention (1787))
The landed interest is the great foundation upon which rest the fabric of society, and the institutions of the country. I mean no disparagement to manufactures and commerce; I know how essential they are to the happiness and prosperity of the country, and how much they add even to the value of the land. But the land of the country is the country itself, and the owner of the land has the deepest and most permanent interest in its well-being; tied down to the soil, he must share the fortunes of his country, whether in its greatness or its fall.
temple, henry, 3rd viscount palmerston— Speech in the House of Commons (3 March 1831), quoted in George Henry Francis, Opinions and Policy of the Right Honourable Viscount Palmerston, G.C.B., M.P., &c. as Minister, Diplomatist, and Statesman, During More Than Forty Years of Public Life (London: Colburn and Co., 1852), pp. 172-173.
It is in the highest degree likely that the North will not be able to subdue the south, and it is no doubt certain that if the Southern union is established as an independent state it would afford a valuable and extensive market for British manufactures but the operations of the war have as yet been too indecisive to warrant an acknowledgement of the southern union.
temple, henry, 3rd viscount palmerston— Letter to Sir Austen Henry Layard (20 October 1861), quoted in Jasper Ridley, Lord Palmerston (London: Constable, 1970), p. 552.
...the town of Sheffield is of great antiquity, and its manufactures are of world-wide reputation, especially that of cutlery, which has been celebrated for more than 500 years.
— Petition for city status to Queen Victoria from Sheffield Town Council, 1 February 1893.
Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of agriculture to be worse paid than the labours of trade and manufactures.
thomas malthus— An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798), Chapter V, paragraph 23, lines 3-7
The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers.
Adam Smith— Chapter XI, Part III, Conclusion of the Chapter, p. 292
