State Commerce

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or commerce:

“Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.”
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“On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
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