The Natural Price, Therefore, Is, As It

Ask Any Rich Man Of Common Prudence To Which Of The Two Sorts Of People He Has Lent The Greater Part Of His Stock, To Those Who, He Thinks, Will Employ It Profitably, Or To Those Who Will Spend It Idly, And He Will Laugh At You For Proposing The Question.

Whatever Work He Does, Beyond What Is Sufficient To Purchase His Own Maintenance, Can Be Squeezed Out Of Him By Violence Only, And Not By Any Interest Of His Own.

To Subject Every Private Family To The Odious Visits And Examination Of The Tax-gatherers ... Would Be Altogether Inconsistent With Liberty.

No Complaint... Is More Common Than That Of A Scarcity Of Money.

Thus The Labour Of A Manufacture Adds, Generally, To The Value Of The Materials Which He Works Upon, That Of His Own Maintenance, And Of His Masters Profits. The Labour Of A Menial Servant, On The Contrary, Adds To The Value Of Nothing.