If A Tax On Malt Would Raise

It Appears To Me That One Great Cause Of Our Difference In Opinion On Subjects Which We Often Discuss Is That You Have Always In Mind The Immediate And Temporary Effects Of Particular Changes, Whereas I Put These Effects Quite Aside, And Fix My Whole Attention On The Long-term Effects That Will Result From Them.

Neither A State Nor A Bank Ever Have Had Unrestricted Power Of Issuing Paper Money Without Abusing That Power.

Possessing Utility, Commodities Derive Their Exchangeable Value From Two Sources: From Their Scarcity, And From The Quantity Of Labour Required To Obtain Them.

If Then The Prosperity Of The Commercial Classes, Will Most Certainly Lead To Accumulation Of Capital, And The Encouragement Of Productive Industry; These Can By No Means Be So Surely Obtained As By A Fall In The Price Of Corn.

No Extension Of Foreign Trade Will Immediately Increase The Amount Of Value In A Country, Although It Will Very Powerfully Contribute To Increase The Mass Of Commodities And Therefore The Sum Of Enjoyments.