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The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

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
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
The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.
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Commodity exchange Increase Production Value
There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.
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Profit Wage Way Yourself
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
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
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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Consume Effect Fall Luxury Price Profit Tax
Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.
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Current exchange Money Prevent Variation
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
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
Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.
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Choice Evil Option
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.
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Farmer Live Manufacture Profit Wage
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
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
In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.
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Nation Possession Quantity Wasted Time

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