In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

We might as well reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by demand or supply.

And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.