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

David Ricardo

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
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
Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.
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Essential exchange Measurement Value
Every transaction in commerce is an independent transaction.
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Commerce Independent Transaction
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
If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.
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Class Commercial Commodity Degree Demand Greatness Home
Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.
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Clever Different Profit Stupidity
A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price in the home market.
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Consumer Export Foreign Home Marketing Permanent Price
Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.
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Choice Evil Option
No extension of foreign trade will immediately increase the amount of value in a country, although it will very powerfully contribute to increase the mass of commodities and therefore the sum of enjoyments.
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Commodity Enjoyment Increase Trade Value
But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.
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Commodity Machine Production Rise Wage
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.
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Farmer Live Manufacture Profit Wage
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
Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.
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Commodity Possession Require Source 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
But it is clear that the price of labour has no necessary connection with the price of food, since it depends entirely on the supply of labourers compared with the demand.
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Clear Compare Connection Demand Labor Necessary Price

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