Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation a mental or physical barter to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

All government indeed every human benefit and enjoyment every virtue and every prudent act is founded on compromise and barter.

The propensity to truck barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men and to be found in no other race of animals.