The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.

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

I have already expressed my opinion on this subject in treating of rent, and have now only further to add, that rent is a creation of value, as I understand that word, but not a creation of wealth.

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

If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

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.