All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.

It would be too ridiculous to go about seriously to prove that wealth does not consist in money, or in gold and silver; but in what money purchases, and is valuable only for purchasing. Money no doubt, makes always a part of the national capital; but it has already been shown that it generally makes but a small part, and always the most unprofitable part of it.

By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound

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

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.

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is most often unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages.