"To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit f…"

"The rich, by consuming the produce of the labour of the poor, in fact, employ them, and give them a maintenance."

"The attention of the public is always much more forcibly attracted by the vices and follies of the great, than by their virtues and their wisdom."

"The most opulent nations, indeed, are in general the most happy and comfortable."

"The second duty of the sovereign, that of protecting, as far as possible, every member of the society from the injustice or oppression of every other member of it, or the duty of establishing an exact…"