“No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.”
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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
All money is a matter of belief.