Tariffs Quotations

I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.

In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.

Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.

I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.

If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.

There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.

The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.

France would be reluctant to embrace any proposal by the European Commission to slash agricultural tariffs if it threatened the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy .

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.

Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.

U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products.

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.

A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.

We shouldn't be putting tariffs on anything. That hurts working men and women in US. What we should be doing is making our manufacturing more competitive.

I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. … “And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold.