Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

- David Ricardo

The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.

- David Ricardo

Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.

- David Ricardo

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.

- David Ricardo

The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits.

- David Ricardo

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

- David Ricardo

Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of t…

- David Ricardo

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

- David Ricardo

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

- David Ricardo