Quotes About A Nation Of Shopkeepers
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I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages. ~ George Bernard Shaw
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. ~ Adam Smith
It was in the eighteenth century that England became what (Adam) Smith called "a nation of shopkeepers" ... (p. 58) ~ Jerry Z. Muller
All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history. ~ Arthur Bryant
If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers. ~ Ada Louise Huxtable
England is a nation of shopkeepers. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested. ~ Samuel Adams
