When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman? - Jean-Baptiste Say

The day will come, sooner or later, when people will wonder at the necessity of taking all this trouble to expose the folly of a system, so childish and absurd, and yet so often enforced at the point of a bayonet.

With no fixed opinions in relation to the causes of public prosperity, the nation, like a ship without chart or compass, was driven about by the caprice of the winds and the folly of the pilot, alike ignorant of the place of her departure or destination.

Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.