The United States will have the honour of proving experimentally, that true policy goes hand in hand with moderation and humanity. - Jean-Baptiste Say

When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?

It is doubtless very desirable, that private persons should have a correct knowledge of their personal interests; but it must be infinitely more so, that governments should possess that knowledge.

And let no government imagine, that, to strip them of the power of defrauding their subjects, is to deprive them of a valuable privilege. A system of swindling can never be long lived, and must infallibly in the end produce much more loss than profit.