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The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.

David Ricardo

The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.
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Class Community Interest
Again two manufacturers may employ the same amount of fixed, and the same amount of circulating capital; but the durability of their fixed capitals may be very unequal.
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Capital Equality Fix Man
There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.
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Profit Wage Way Yourself
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
There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.
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Fall Labour Profit Rise Value
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.
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Competition Contract Control Freedom Legislature Wage
Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.
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Material Money Tools Work
If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.
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Capital Class Commercial Encouragement Prosperity
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
To alter the money value of commodities, by altering the value of money, and yet to raise the same money amount by taxes, is then undoubtedly to increase the burthens of society.
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Commodity Doubt Increase Money Value
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
The demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity.
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Demand Quantity Value
Every transaction in commerce is an independent transaction.
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Commerce Independent Transaction
It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.
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Absolute Production Quantity Rate Requirement
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
During the period of capital moving from one employment to another, the profits on that to which capital is flowing will be relatively high, but will continue so no longer than till the requisite capital is obtained.
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Capital Employment Flow Move Relative

The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.

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