Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.

Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.

Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.

The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection.

Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs.

All money is essentially merchandize.

All merchandize has the two essential properties of money, to measure and to represent all value: and in this sense all merchandize is money.