All money is essentially merchandize..

Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws..

The earth has been cultivated before it has been divided; the cultivation itself having been the only motive for a division, and for that law which s….

The expenses of government, having for their object the interest of all, should be borne by everyone, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of soc….

Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants..

Every soil does not produce every material..

All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general use, of a more similar quality, and more easy….

What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a new world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion..

If the land was divided among all the inhabitants of a country, so that each of them possessed precisely the quantity necessary for his support, and ….

The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection..

It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction..

All merchandize has the two essential properties of money, to measure and to represent all value: and in this sense all merchandize is money..

Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs..