Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.

The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.

Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.