The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market

For a very small expence the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.

It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.

To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed.

The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.