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 unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.

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

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.

Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. He intends only his own gain, and he is, in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.