...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

It has therefore been justly observed that however honestly the coin of a country may conform to its standard, money made of gold and silver is still liable to fluctuations in value, not only to accidental, and temporary, but to permanent and natural variations, in the same manner as other commodities.

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

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

Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

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

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.