"The value of a commodity, or the quantity of any other commodity for which it will exchange, depends on the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command."

"The propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals."

"The common people are always more afraid of the king, and the nobility, than of each other."

"Justice, however, is the main pillar that upholds the whole edifice. If it is removed, the great, the immense fabric of human society, that fabric which to raise and support seems in this world, if I …"

"The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution."