Mercantile Jealousy Is Excited, And

There Is No Art Which Government Sooner Learns Of Another Than That Of Draining Money From The Pockets Of The People.

Men Desire To Have Some Share In The Management Of Public Affairs Chiefly On Account Of The Importance Which It Gives Them.

Consumption Is The Sole End And Purpose Of All Production; And The Interest Of The Producer Ought To Be Attended To Only So Far As It May Be Necessary For Promoting That Of The Consumer. The Maxim Is So Perfectly Self-evident That It Would Be Absurd To Attempt To Prove It. But In The Mercantile System The Interest Of The Consumer Is Almost Constantly Sacrificed To That Of The Producer; And It Seems To Consider Production, And Not Consumption, As The Ultimate End And Object Of All Industry And Commerce.

Great Nations Are Never Impoverished By Private, Though They Sometimes Are By Public Prodigality And Misconduct.

Justice, However, Never Was In Reality Administered Gratis In Any Country. Lawyers And Attornies, At Least, Must Always Be Paid By The Parties; And, If They Were Not, They Would Perform Their Duty Still Worse Than They Actually Perform It.