In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

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.

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

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.

The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity.

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

Called an inquiry into the laws which determine the division of the produce.