The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.

The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.

A true party-man hates and despises candour.

It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

Every man lives by exchanging.