But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

China is a much richer country than any part of Europe.

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

I have no faith in political arithmetic.

Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.

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

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