A tax can never be favorable to the public welfare, except by the good use that is made of its proceeds. - Jean-Baptiste Say

I have made no distinction between the circulation of goods and of money, because there really is none.

The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.

It is a melancholy but an undoubted fact, that, even in the most thriving countries, part of the population annually dies of mere want. Not that all who perish from want absolutely die of hunger; though this calamity is of more frequent occurrence than is generally supposed.