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...I wish that I may never th...

...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

Every transaction in commerce...

Every transaction in commerce is an independent transaction.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

If a tax on malt would raise ...

If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

Experience, however, shows th...

Experience, however, shows that neither a state nor a bank ever have [sic] had the unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power; in all states, therefore, the issue of paper money ought to be under some check and control; and none seems so proper for that purpose as that of subjecting the issuers of paper money to the obligation of paying their notes either in gold coin or bullion.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

For price is everywhere regul...

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

The factors left out of the R...

The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

The opinions that the price o...

The opinions that the price of commodities depends solely on the proportion of supply and demand, or demand to supply, has become almost an axiom in political economy, and has been the source of much error in that science.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

Possessing utility, commoditi...

Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

Labour, like all other things...

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

The demand for money is regul...

The demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

It is here we come to the hea...

It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may, in return for manufactured commodities, import corn even if it can be grown with less labour than in the country from which it is imported

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There is no way of keeping pr...

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

It has therefore been justly ...

It has therefore been justly observed that however honestly the coin of a country may conform to its standard, money made of gold and silver is still liable to fluctuations in value, not only to accidental, and temporary, but to permanent and natural variations, in the same manner as other commodities.

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LABOUR, like all other things...

LABOUR, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, on with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.

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Taxation under every form pre...

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.

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Neither machines, nor the com...

Neither machines, nor the commodities made by them, rise in real value, but all commodities made by machines fall, and fall in proportion to their durability.

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But a tax on luxuries would n...

But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits.

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By far the greatest part of t...

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

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Nothing contributes so much t...

Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

The exchangeable value of all...

The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.

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