When Profit Diminishes, Merchants Are Very Apt

Individual Ambition Serves The Common Good.

The Subjects Of Every State Ought To Contribute Toward The Support Of The Government, As Nearly As Possible, In Proportion To Their Respective Abilities; That Is, In Proportion To The Revenue Which They Respectively Enjoy Under The Protection Of The State ....as Henry Home (lord Kames) Has Written, A Goal Of Taxation Should Be To 'remedy Inequality Of Riches As Much As Possible, By Relieving The Poor And Burdening The Rich.'

Consumption Is The Sole End And Purpose Of All Production.

Resentment Seems To Have Been Given Us By Nature For A Defense, And For A Defense Only! It Is The Safeguard Of Justice And The Security Of Innocence.

Though The Profusion Of Government Must Undoubtedly Have Retarded The Natural Progress Of England To Wealth And Improvement, It Has Not Been Able To Stop It.