Robert Gilpin Quotes

We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.

I was drinking tea the other day, and I thought: they used to fight wars over this.

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

I think that trade is an important issue. Of course, we are 5 percent of the world's population; we have to trade with the other 95 percent. And we need to have smart, fair trade deals.

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.

For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.

War is the trade of Kings.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

If a situation were to be forced upon us in which peace could only be preserved by the surrender of the great and beneficent position Britain has won by centuries of heroism and achievement, by allowing Britain to be treated where her interests were vitally affected as if she were of no account in the Cabinet of nations, then I say emphatically that peace at that price would be a humiliation intolerable for a great country like ours to endure. National honor is no party question. The security of our great international trade is no party question; the peace of the world is much more likely to be secured if all nations realize fairly what the conditions of peace must be

The best way to help countries around the world is to help them with trade.

We can’t influence other countries’ decisions if we send them a message that we’re backing away from trade.

Surging global trade creates new security risks that will require new global safeguards.

Today, however, the world is deeply troubled everywhere and disorder seems endless. As the disasters that humankind may suffer are immeasurable, we sincerely hope to bring about a cessation of hostilities and a restoration of peace, and have therefore ordered the government to ally with Germany and Italy, nations which share the same intentions as ourselves ….

More and more we must build our foreign policy around commerce.

Commerce is a teacher and a pacificator. It gives mankind knowledge one of another. Reciprocity of trade promotes reciprocity of friendship. Good trade insures good will. … and wherever we secure just and fair commercial relations with other nations, we are sure to have with them friendly political relations.

Turn on your television and see what happens when nations settle their internal differences with guns.

The farmers in America who are raising wheat and beef and cotton, and the great multitudes engaged in manufacture, depend for the rewards of their labor largely upon the orderly continuance of purchase, consumption and payment by the people of other countries. It would be a real misfortune to the American breakfast table if Brazil ceased to produce coffee and Cuba ceased to produce sugar and China ceased to produce tea.

I think we need to continue to engage with our allies and with the world situation both on trade. I'm concerned that by pulling out of TPP, while we all want fair and competitive trade, the fact is what we have done is left the playing field to the Chinese to engage with those partners.

The United States is a nation located in the global economy, and we get enormous, enormous benefits from dealing with foreigners.

I have learned some core lessons along the way. Among the most important, I have become a firm believer that a strong geopolitical relationship can be born out of a strong economic relationship, which often begins with trade.