“Wherever we can read human history, the answer is always the same. Where commerce has flourished there civilization has increased. It has not sufficed that men should tend their flocks, and maintain themselves in comfort on their industry alone, however great. It is only when the exchange of products begins that development follows. This was the case in ancient Babylon, whose records of trade and banking we are just beginning to read. Their merchandise went by canal and caravan to the ends of the earth. It was not the war galleys, but the merchant vessel of Phoenicia, of Tyre, and Carthage that brought them civilization and power. Today it is not the battle fleet, but the mercantile marine which in the end will determine the destiny of nations.” -
Calvin Coolidge[And we have a vast cadre of folks who seem hell-bent on destroying that foundation in order to bring about some glorious revolution (most assuredly Marxist in origin) that will herald a time of peace and prosperity for all (or gross human suffering on a scale we haven't seen except in totalitarian hell-holes.)]
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