If the land was divided among all the inhabitants of a country, so that each of them possessed precisely the quantity necessary for his support, and … - Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

Eripuit Coelo fulmen, mox Sceptra Tyrannis.

All merchandize has the two essential properties of money, to measure and to represent all value: and in this sense all merchandize is money.

The productions of the earth require long and difficult preparations, before they are rendered fit to supply the wants of men. The productions which the earth supplies to satisfy the different wants of man, will not, for the most part, administer to those wants, in the state nature affords them; it is necessary they should undergo different operations, and be prepared by art. Wheat must be converted into flour, then into bread; hides must be dressed or tanned; wool and cotton must be spun; silk must be taken from the cod; hemp and flax must be soaked, peeled, spun, and wove into different textures; then cut and sewed together again to make garments, &c. If the same man who cultivates on his own land these different articles, and who raises them to supply his wants, was obliged to perform all the intermediate operations himself, it is certain he would succeed very badly.