It has been my endeavour to show in this work that a fall of wages would have no other effect than to raise profits. - David Ricardo

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

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.

Population regulates itself by the funds which are to employ it, and therefore always increases or diminishes with the increase or the diminution of capital. Every reduction of capital is therefore necessarily followed by a less effective demand for corn, by a fall in price, and by diminished cultivation.