Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity:... - Adam Smith

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

II. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary.

If the importation of foreign cattle, for example, were made ever so free, so few could be imported, that the grazing trade of Great Britain could be little affected by it. Live cattle are, perhaps, the only commodity of which the transportation is more expensive by sea than by land.