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

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

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.

Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

Every transaction in commerce is an independent transaction.

If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?