The most conservative man in the world is the British trade unionist, when you want to change him.

-Bevin, Ernest
  Speech to Trade Union Congress, 8 Sep.

A man must serve his time to every trade Save censureöcritics all are ready made. Take hackneyed jokes from Miller, got by rote, With just enough of learning to misquote.

-Rochdale
  English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, l.63^6.

Here is a pleasant situation, and yet nothing pleasant to be seen. Here is a harbour without ships, a port without trade, a fishery without nets, a people without business; and, that which is worse than all, they do not seem to desire business, much less do they understand it.

-Defoe, Daniel
^7  Of Kirkcudbright, Scotland.  A  Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain, letter12.

What a finething capital punishment is! Dead mennever repent; dead men never bring awkward stories to light. Ah, it's a finething for thetrade! Five of 'emstrung up ina row; and none left to play booty, or turn white-livered!

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^9  Fagin. Oliver Twist, ch.9.

   The walls of spiders' legs are made, Well mortised and finely laid; He was the master of his trade It curiously builded; The windows of the eyes of cats, And for the roof, instead of slats, Is covered with the skins of bats, With moonshine that are gilded.

-Drayton, Michael
  Nymphidia, the Court of Fairy.

So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade.

-Dryden,John
  'Prologue to the University of Oxon†at the  Acting of  The Silent Woman'.

War is the trade of kings.

-Dryden,John
King  Arthur, act 2, sc.2.

The Catholics, bad harvests, and the mysterious fluctuations of tradeöthree evils mankind had to fear.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
  The Mill on the Floss, bk.1, ch.12.

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.

-Hall, Charles
  The Effects of Civilization on the People in European States.

It is a commercial paper, a paper of business, and it is conducted on principles of trade and business. It floats with the tide: it sails with the stream. It has no other principle.

-Hazlitt,William
  Of  The Times. In the Edinburgh Review, May.

We are the trade union for pensioners and children; the tradeunionfor the disabledand thesick; thetradeunion for the nation as a whole.

-Hearst,William Randolph
  Election campaign speech, 20 Feb.

Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son me¤  tier. God will forgive me. It is His trade.

-Heine, Heinrich
   Attributed, on his deathbed.

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil† Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wearsman'ssmudgeand sharesman'ssmell: thesoil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'God's Grandeur'.

All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests.

-Jevons,William Stanley
  The State in Relation to Labour, introduction.

Trade could not be managed by those who manage it, if it had much difficulty.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Letter to Hester Thrale,16 Nov.

   There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake, Or the way of a man with a maid; But the sweetest way to me is a ship's upon the sea In the heel of the North-East Trade.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'The Long Trail'.

C'est un me¤  tier que de faire un livre, comme de faire une pendule; il faut plus que de l'esprit pour e"  tre auteur. It is as much a trade to write a book as it is to make a watch; it takes more than wit to make an author.

-La Bruye'  re,Jean de
  Les Caracte'  res ou les m½urs de ce sie'  cle,'Des ouvrages de l'esprit', no.3.

A small, compact core, consisting of reliable, experienced and hardened workers, with responsible agents†connected byall therules of strict secrecy with the organisations of revolutionists, can, with the wide support of the masses and without an elaborate set of rules, perform all the functions of a trade union.

-Lenin,Vladimir Ilyich originally Vladimir IlyichUlyanov
  What Is to be Done?

Thisisthetrustymastiffthat istowatchoverourinterests, but which runs awayat the first snarl of the trade unions. A mastiff? It is the right honourable gentleman's poodle. It fetches and carries for him. It barks for him. It bites anybody that he sets it on.

-Lloyd George (of Dwyfor), David, 1st Earl
  Speech to the House of Commons, 21 Dec, referring to the obstructive Conservative majority in the House of Lords BC BC exploited by the then Tory leader,  A  J Balfour.

The root of Evil, Avarice That damn'd ill-natur'd, baneful Vice, Was Slave to Prodigality, That noble Sin; whilst Luxury Employed a Million of the Poor, And odious Pride a Million more; Envy itself, and Vanity, Were Ministers of Industry; Their darling Folly, Fickleness, In Diet, Furniture and Dress That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made That very Wheel that turned theTrade.

-Mandeville, Bernard
  The Fable of the Bees, or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits (2nd edn.).