And where British trade goes, on the whole there goes too the highest civilizing power in the world--British character.

It is significant of his faith that he has ever worked to get the British mercantile marine manned by men of the British race, and to this end has led the way in improving the conditions of the British seaman's life.
"All the fallacies and wild theories of revolutionary minds," he once said to me, "break ultimately on the rock of industrial fact.

The more freely nations trade together the more clearly will it be seen that humanity must work out its salvation within the limits of economic law.
And the way to a smooth working out of that salvation is by recognizing the claims of the moral law.

We are men before we are merchants.

There is no reason why mistrust should exist between management and labour.
The economic law by no means excludes, but rather demands, humaneness.