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Governments have meddled incessantly with money, which in our time has been the fruitful parent of intricate discussions and painful changes.
Popular Political Economy: Four lectures delivered at the London Mechanics Institution (1827)
Domestic slavery, combined with systems of foreign conquest and usurpation, ruined the empires of antiquity.
Popular Political Economy: Four lectures delivered at the London Mechanics Institution (1827)
Slave-owners and rich men, among a crowd of slave-descended famishing labourers, lead probably a more anxious and toilsome life in protecting their property, and in enforcing obedience to their orders, than the slaves whose labour they extort.
Popular Political Economy: Four lectures delivered at the London Mechanics Institution (1827)
[G]overnments are not producers, they have no commodities on their road to the market, and can have no claim whatever to issue paper-money. Even exchequer bills are wrong,…
Popular Political Economy: Four lectures delivered at the London Mechanics Institution (1827)
Now we know from all history, that unjust appropriation, that every long-continued attempt in one class of men to escape from the necessity of labour imposed on our race, that every infringment of a man's right to use, consume, and enjoy his own produce, has ever been attended with disastrous consequences. It is a violation of a natural law which never passes unpunished.
Popular Political Economy: Four lectures delivered at the London Mechanics Institution (1827)