"Turgot was never dazzled; it was his greatness, if it was also his misfortune, to see men and the world exactly as th…"

"The fate of America is already decided — Behold her independent beyond recovery. — But will She be free and happy? — …"

"The earth has been cultivated before it has been divided; the cultivation itself having been the only motive for a di…"

"Every soil does not produce every material."

"The productions of the earth require long and difficult preparations, before they are rendered fit to supply the want…"

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

"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 mor…"

"All money is essentially merchandize."

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

"Eripuit Coelo fulmen, mox Sceptra Tyrannis."