“It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism.” MenWantEarthValuesGivenCitiesConditionsFieldsChangedComfortOceanLaborMiseryRaisedForestsShipsPlentyDesertCoveredPossessedSavagesEleganceBarbarismTalismans Author:John Ramsay McCulloch
“No arbitrary regulation, no act of the legislature, can add anything to the capital of the country; it can only force it into artificial channels.” CountryForceAddArtificialRegulationArbitraryLegislature Book:The Principles of Political Economy: With Some Inquiries Respecting Their Application, and a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Science Source: The Principles of Political Economy: With Some Inquiries Respecting Their Application, and a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Science
“The principle of laissez-faire may be safely trusted to in some things but in many more it is wholly inapplicable; and to appeal to it on all occasions savors more of the policy of a parrot than of a statesman or a philosopher.” MayPrinciplesPolicyPhilosopherLibertarianOccasionsAppealsTrustedStatesmenLaissez FaireParrotsAll Occasions Author:John Ramsay McCulloch
“Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.” MinutesCodePortionsPoliteEtiquette Author:John Ramsay McCulloch
