Henry George Quotes

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

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

Leaving the E.U. will enable the U.K. to undertake a major campaign for import substitution.

Nationalism makes us poor because its Siamese twin, protectionism, will destroy the internal market and disrupt international trade.

I worry about protectionists, which is another way of saying less competition, less trade around the world. And I view those as twins of negativity.

I think it's a message of economic nationalism. It's obviously one that has bubbled up before in certain pockets, but it's never been the sort of powerful phenomenon that it is today.

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. The wars of our age are not at variance with popular economic doctrines; they are, on the contrary, the inescapable result of a consistent application of these doctrines.

The United States can't keep a completely open system if the rest of the world is less open. The United States may have to take a leaf out of the book of Japan, China, and Germany, and have protectionism inside the system.

Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies.

In these days of intimate relations, of economic stress and of intense desire to protect national interests and advance national opportunity, the treatment of questions which, from a legal standpoint, are domestic, often seriously affects international relations. The principle, each nation for itself to the full extent of its powers, is the principle of war, not of peace.

A trade war is a conflict in which each side uses most of its ammunition to shoot itself in the foot.

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

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

The thing that we have to worry about is this protectionist movement that has reared its head again in this country

For the past quarter of a century, the predominant idea, which has successfully asserted itself at the polls and shaped the course of the government, has been to preserve the home market for the home industries. The employer and the workman have alike been taught to look at the various economical measures proposed from this point of view, to regard with hostility any step favoring the intrusion of the foreign producer upon their own domain, and rather to demand increasingly rigorous measures of exclusion than to acquiesce in any loosening of the chain that binds the consumer to them.

Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama all used temporarily targeted tariffs on specific industries.

Protectionism is something that will hurt everybody, but especially the United States.

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

Consider trade protectionism. It's been tried - and found wanting - since the Great Depression.

While I tend to side with economist Milton Freidman when it comes to free-market economics, there is a place for 'Made in the U.S.A.' where national security is concerned.

We can do a much better job free of protectionist Europeans.

Trade protection accumulates upon a single point the good which it effects, while the evil inflicted is infused throughout the mass. The one strikes the eye at a first glance, while the other becomes perceptible only to close investigation.

I'm not talking about autarky. I'm not crazy. We need an intelligent protectionism.

Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.

As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.