“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”
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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.
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.