Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits.

It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.

A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.

The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.

Every transaction in commerce is an independent transaction.

To alter the money value of commodities, by altering the value of money, and yet to raise the same money amount by taxes, is then undoubtedly to increase the burthens of society.