They certainly desire to receive at least as much as they give, and _they make at home the payment for that which they buy elsewhere_.

If then, they inundate us with their products, it is because they expect to be inundated with ours.

In this case, the best way to have much for ourselves is to be free to choose between these two methods of production: direct production or indirect production.

All the British Machiavelism cannot lead us to make a bad choice.
Let us then stop assimilating industrial competition with war; a false assimilation, which is specious only when two rival branches of industry are isolated, in order to judge of the effects of competition.

As soon as the effect produced on the general well-being is taken into consideration, the analogy disappears.
In a battle, he who is killed is thoroughly killed, and the army is weakened just that much.