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

Whence it is evident that the remedy must be adapted to the particular cause of the mischief; consequently, the cause must be ascertained, before the remedy is devised.

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

With no fixed opinions in relation to the causes of public prosperity, the nation, like a ship without chart or compass, was driven about by the caprice of the winds and the folly of the pilot, alike ignorant of the place of her departure or destination.