Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient, supple, and insinuating, only resorting to extreme measures in cases of absolute necessity. Trade makes men independent of one another and gives them a high idea of their personal importance: it leads them to want to manage their own affairs and teaches them to succeed therein. Hence it makes them inclined to liberty but disinclined to revolution.

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Alexis de Tocqueville: "Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient, supple, and insinuating, only resorting to extreme measures in cases of absolute necessity. Trade makes men independent of one another and gives them a high idea of their personal importance: it leads them to want to manage their own affairs and teaches them to succeed therein. Hence it makes them inclined to liberty but disinclined to revolution."

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Absolute	Affairs	Anger	Another
Avoid	Careful	Cases	Compromise
Delights	Disinclined	Enemy	Extreme
Gives	Hence	High	Idea
Importance	Inclined	Independent	Insinuating
Leads	Liberty	Loves	Makes
Manage	Measures	Moderation	Most
Natural	Necessity	Passions	Patient
Personal	Resorting	Revolution	Succeed
Supple	Teaches	Them	Therein
Trade	Violent	Want

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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient, supple, and insinuating, only resorting to extreme measures in cases of absolute necessity. Trade makes men independent of one another and gives them a high idea of their personal importance: it leads them to want to manage their own affairs and teaches them to succeed therein. Hence it makes them inclined to liberty but disinclined to revolution. - Alexis de Tocqueville