I Have No Faith In Political Arithmetic.

The Annual Produce Of The Land And Labour Of Any Nation Can Be Increased In Its Value By No Other Means, But By Increasing Either The Number Of Its Productive Labourers, Or The Productive Powers Of Those Labourers Who Had Before Been Employed.

Men Of The Most Robust Make, Observe That In Looking Upon Sore Eyes They Often Feel A Very Sensible Soreness In Their Own, Which Proceeds From The Same Reason; That Organ Being In The Strongest Man More Delicate, Than Any Other Part Of The Body Is In The Weakest.

The Property Which Every Man Has In His Own Labour, As It Is The Original Foundation Of All Other Property, So It Is The Most Sacred And Inviolable.

It Is The Highest Impertinence And Presumption, Therefore, In Kings And Ministers To Pretend To Watch Over The Economy Of Private People, And To Restrain Their Expense. They Are Themselves, Always, And Without Any Exception, The Greatest Spendthrifts In The Society.

Men, Like Animals, Naturally Multiply In Proportion To The Means Of Their Subsistence.