Quotes About Impairs

Every dollar of tax imposed on our exchanges in the shape of duties impairs, to that extent, our capacity to meet the severe competition to which we are exposed; and nothing but a system of high protective duties, long continued, can prevent us from meeting it successfully. It is that which we have to fear.

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.