The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.

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

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.

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

Neither machines, nor the commodities made by them, rise in real value, but all commodities made by machines fall, and fall in proportion to their durability.

As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity.