Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

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.

Adam Smith, and other able writers to whom I have alluded, not having viewed correctly the principles of rent, have, it appears to me, overlooked many important truths, which can only be discovered after the subject of rent is thoroughly understood.

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

The demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity.

There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.

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