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J.B. Say argues that colonial slave labor is really quite profitable for the slave owners at the expense of the slaves and the home consumers (1817)

Indeed, this very exorbitance of profit shows, that the industry of the master is paid out of all...
Jean-Baptiste Say argues that there is a world of difference between private consumption and public consumption; an increase in the latter does nothing to increase public wealth (1803)

What, then, are we to think of the principles laid down by those writers, who have laboured to dr...
Jean-Baptiste Say regards regulations which favor producers as a form of political privilege at the expence of the community (1803)

But personal interest is no longer a safe criterion, if individual interests are not left to coun...
Say on a person’s property right in their own “industrious faculties” (1819)

The property a man has in his own industry, is violated, whenever he is forbidden the free exerci...
John Ramsay McCulloch argues that smuggling is “wholly the result of vicious commercial and financial legislation” and that it could be ended immediately by abolishing this legislation (1899)

This crime, which occupies so prominent a place in the criminal legislation of all modern states,...
Franz Oppenheimer argues that there are two fundamentally opposed ways of acquiring wealth: the “political means” through coercion, and the “economic means” through peaceful trade (1922)

There are two fundamentally opposed means whereby man, requiring sustenance, is impelled to obtai...
Herbert Spencer makes a distinction between the “militant type of society” based upon violence and the “industrial type of society” based upon peaceful economic activity (1882)

Whence it follows that the desire "not to be dependent on foreigners' is one appropriate to the m...
J.B. Say on the self-evident nature of property rights which is nevertheless violated by the state in taxation and slavery (1817)

There are some truths so completely self-evident, that demonstration is quite superfluous. This i...
Thomas Hodgskin noted in his journey through the northern German states that the burden of heavy taxation was no better than it had been under the conqueror Napoleon (1820)

The pressure of governments on subjects is at present so exclusively felt through taxes, that the...
Horace Say on “I, Pin” and the international division of labor (1852)

If Adam Smith had extended his analysis, he might have shown that many other partial operations a...
Harriet Martineau condemns tariffs as a “vicious aristocratic principle” designed to harm the ordinary working man and woman (1861)

I perceive you ground your disapprobation of the protective system on the injustice and unkindnes...
James Mill’s formulation of “Say’s Law” (1808)

No proposition however in political œconomy seems to be more certain than this which I am going t...
Jean-Baptiste Say argues that home-consumers bear the brunt of the cost of maintaining overseas colonies and that they also help support the lavish lifestyles of the planter and merchant classes (1817)

All these losses fall chiefly upon the class of home-consumers, a class of all others the most im...
Georg Jellinek argues that Lafayette was one of the driving forces behind the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789)

The conception of a declaration of rights had found expression in France even before the assembli...