James Madison Quotes

Free trade is opposed by most people who call themselves “free traders”.

The closest we can come to free trade is illuminating the barriers to free trade.

Mercantilism is based upon the idea that a nation's wealth and security depend upon its ability to regulate and control its external trade at the expense of others.

Free trade is always vulnerable to democratic politics.

Thank God I am not a free-trader. In this country pernicious indulgence in the doctrine of free trade seems inevitably to produce fatty degeneration of the moral fibre.

I am utterly opposed to anything which will alter the Free Trade character of this country.

The arguments for protection are more easily made attractive than those for free trade.

It's not just free trade verses protectionism any longer, you've got the concepts of managed trade and reciprocity, and environmental issues.

May our exports be so great, and our imports so small, that the balance of trade may be in our favor.

While protectionism doesn’t work, pure free trade doesn’t work either.

Free trade is hard to sell politically.

There are some who want to move us back to the days when we were protectionists and keep all goods off our shores.

I am not anti-trade. I am pro-trade. But I am pro-sensible trade.

The E.U., China, and Japan all talk free trade, and they all practice protectionism.

Ask anybody on Main Street whether it makes any sense to allow foreign countries to charge higher tariffs than we charge them, and the answer will surely be a resounding 'heck no!'

I'm not opposed to free trade if it's fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals.

Foreign trade clearly has been a reason why inflation has been low.

Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.

A liberal economy doesn’t mean opening wide the doors for imports.

Free trade is a two way street.

Whence comes this demand for tariff tinkering. Aren't all our fellows happy?

Unfair foreign trade practices are not isolated acts.

Protectionism is the fool's gold of American politics.

Demanding freedom of access to other markets isn't protectionism, it's free trade.

We need some economists to say that [trade] protectionism is not as dangerous as most economists seem to think it is.