When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour. - Jean-Baptiste Say

A much larger value is consumed in lettuces than in pineapples, throughout Europe at large; and the superb shawls of Cachemere are, in France, a very poor object in trade, in comparison with the plain cotton goods of Rouen.

Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized!

Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.