There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

Men of the most robust make, observe that in looking upon sore eyes they often feel a very sensible soreness in their own, which proceeds from the same reason; that organ being in the strongest man more delicate, than any other part of the body is in the weakest.

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.

Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.

Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.

In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.