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

The liberal reward of labor, therefore, as it is the necessary effect, so it is the natural symptom of increasing national wealth. The scanty maintenance of the laboring poor, on the other hand, is the natural symptom that things are at a stand, and their starving condition that they going backwards fast.

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to stop it.

It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.