Take a medium of three years for above forty years past, and calculate the exports and imports to and from France, and it shall appear the balance of trade was always on the English side, to the loss and disadvantage of the French.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
For, if money became scarce, its value would rise according to the laws of supply and demand, and prices of goods would fall; then imports would decrease, and exports increase.
"Political economy"
W. Stanley Jevons
In the year 1913 the exports were nearly $2,500,000,000, while the imports were $600,000,000 less; and in the year 1920 our exports were over $8,000,000,000 and our imports a little over $5,000,000,000!
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair