David Ricardo Quotes

If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.

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

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

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

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.