Capitals Are Increased By Parsimony, And Diminished

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

The Value Of Any Commodity, Therefore, To The Person Who Possesses It, And Who Means Not To Use Or Consume It Himself, But To Exchange It For Other Commodities, Is Equal To The Quantity Of Labour Which It Enables Him To Purchase Or Command. Labour, Therefore, Is The Real Measure Of The Exchangeable Value Of All Commodities. The Real Price Of Everything, What Everything Really Costs To The Man Who Wants To Acquire It, Is The Toil And Trouble Of Acquiring It.

It Would Be Too Ridiculous To Go About Seriously To Prove That Wealth Does Not Consist In Money, Or In Gold And Silver; But In What Money Purchases, And Is Valuable Only For Purchasing. Money No Doubt, Makes Always A Part Of The National Capital; But It Has Already Been Shown That It Generally Makes But A Small Part, And Always The Most Unprofitable Part Of It.

To Found A Great Empire For The Sole Purpose Of Raising Up A People Of Customers, May At First Sight Appear A Project Fit Only For A Nation Of Shopkeepers. It Is, However, A Project Altogether Unfit For A Nation Of Shopkeepers; But Extremely Fit For A Nation Whose Government Is Influenced By Shopkeepers.

The Cheapness Of Wine Seems To Be A Cause, Not Of Drunkenness, But Of Sobriety. ...people Are Seldom Guilty Of Excess In What Is Their Daily Fare... On The Contrary, In The Countries Which, Either From Excessive Heat Or Cold, Produce No Grapes, And Where Wine Consequently Is Dear And A Rarity, Drunkenness Is A Common Vice.