Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice! - Jean-Baptiste Say

The ancients, by their system of colonization, made themselves friends all over the known world; the moderns have sought to make subjects, and therefore have made enemies.

Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital.

Demand and supply are the opposite extremes of the beam, whence depend the scales of dearness and cheapness; the price is the point of equilibrium, where the momentum of the one ceases, and that of the other begins.