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

David Ricardo

Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.
DAVID RICARDO

Competition Contract Control Freedom Legislature Wage
Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.
DAVID RICARDO

Discover Doubt Fluctuation Gold Limitation Powerful Rare Silver Subject
I have already expressed my opinion on this subject in treating of rent, and have now only further to add, that rent is a creation of value, as I understand that word, but not a creation of wealth.
DAVID RICARDO

Creation Expression Opinion Subject Understand Wealth
If a commodity were in no way useful, – in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, – it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.
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Commodity Contribute exchange Necessary Quantity Scarce Way
The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.
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Natural Portion Price
Whether a bank lent one million, ten million, or a hundred millions, they would not permanently alter the market rate of interest; they would alter only the value of the money they issued.
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Bank Issue Loan Money Value
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.
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Farmer Live Manufacture Profit Wage
If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?
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Evidence Money Rise Value
The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.
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Capital Farmer Purchase
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

Cultivate Fertile Land Population Requirement Situation
If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.
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Beer Food Price Raise Tax
There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.
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Consumption Errors Greatness Increase
Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil
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Earth Original Paid Rent Soil
Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.
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Belong Ordinary Production Profit Rate Togetherness Value
There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.
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Fall Labour Profit Rise Value
Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.
DAVID RICARDO

Agriculture Husband Improvement Profit

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