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Adam Smith, and other able wr...

Adam Smith, and other able writers to whom I have alluded, not having viewed correctly the principles of rent, have, it appears to me, overlooked many important truths, which can only be discovered after the subject of rent is thoroughly understood.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

The interest of the landlord ...

The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

The wheat bought by a farmer ...

The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

Neither a state nor a bank ev...

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

By far the greatest part of th...

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.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

Gold and silver, like other co...

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

There can be no rise in the va...

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

After all the fertile land in ...

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

The facility of obtaining food...

The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

There is no way of keeping pro...

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

David Ricardo 71 quotes

There can be no rise in the va...

There can be no rise in the value of labour
without a fall of profits.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

For price is everywhere regula...

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

Gold, on the contrary, though ...

Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

There is no way of keeping pro...

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

David Ricardo 71 quotes

A rise of wages from this caus...

A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

After all the fertile land in ...

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

A rise in wages, from an alter...

A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

The exchangeable value of all ...

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

David Ricardo 71 quotes

Adam Smith, and other able wri...

Adam Smith, and other able writers to whom I have alluded, not having viewed correctly the principles of rent, have, it appears to me, overlooked many important truths, which can only be discovered after the subject of rent is thoroughly understood.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

Money is neither a material to...

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

David Ricardo 71 quotes

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