The rate of profit... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.

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.

A true party-man hates and despises candour.

Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.