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

The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

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

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

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

LABOUR, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, on with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.