The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer. - Jean-Baptiste Say

Law has been unjustly charged with the whole blame of the calamities resulting from the scheme that bears his name.

Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike.

The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness of others, wretched hovels by the side of stately colonnades, the rags of indigence blended with the ensigns of opulence; in a word, the most useless profusion in the midst of the most urgent wants.