Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.

If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.

Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.

If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

Every transaction in commerce is an independent transaction.