Resentment Seems To Have Been Given Us

Consumption Is The Sole End And Purpose Of All Production.

What Is Prudence In The Conduct Of Every Private Family Can Scarce Be Folly In That Of A Great Kingdom.

To Expect, Indeed, That The Freedom Of Trade Should Ever Be Entirely Restored In Great Britain, Is As Absurd As To Expect That An Oceana Or Utopia Should Never Be Established In It.

The Natural Price, Therefore, Is, As It Were, The Central Price, To Which The Prices Of All Commodities Are Continually Gravitating.

It Is Not The Actual Greatness Of National Wealth, But Its Continual Increase, Which Occasions A Rise In The Wages Of Labour. It Is Not, Accordingly, In The Richest Countries, But In The Most Thriving, Or In Those Which Are Growing Rich The Fastest, That The Wages Of Labour Are Highest. England Is Certainly, In The Present Times, A Much Richer Country Than Any Part Of North America. The Wages Of Labour, However, Are Much Higher In North America Than In Any Part Of England.