I Have No Great Faith In Political

Little Else Is Requisite To Carry A State To The Highest Degree Of Opulence From The Lowest Barbarism But Peace, Easy Taxes, And A Tolerable Administration Of Justice: All The Rest Being Brought About By The Natural Course Of Things.

I Have Never Known Much Good Done By Those Who Affected To Trade For The Public Good.

Good Roads, Canals, And Navigable Rivers, By Diminishing The Expence Of Carriage, Put The Remote Parts Of The Country More Nearly Upon A Level With With Those Of The Neighbourhood Of The Town. They Are Upon That The Greatest Of All Improvements.

It Is The Interest Of Every Man To Live As Much At His Ease As He Can; And If His Emoluments Are To Be Precisely The Same, Whether He Does Or Does Not Perform Some Very Laborious Duty, It Is Certainly His Interest, At Least As Interest Is Vulgarly Understood, Either To Neglect It Altogether, Or, If He Is Subject To Some Authority Which Will Not Suffer Him To Do This, To Perform It In As Careless And Slovenly A Manner As That Authority Will Permit.

I Have No Great Faith In Political Arithmetic, And I Mean Not To Warrant The Exactness Of Either Of These Computations.