David Ricardo Quotes About Liberalism

Quotes about: Liberalism

• Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

  David Ricardo

  Wisdom, Competition, Wages

  1817 Principles of Political Economy andTaxation.

• Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

  David Ricardo

  Wisdom, Politics, Economy

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.86

• The last point for consideration is the supposed disposition of the people to interfere with the rights of property. So essential does it appear to me, to the cause of good government, that the rights of property should be held sacred, that I would agree to deprive those of the elective franchise against whom it could justly be alleged that they considered it their interest to invade them.

  David Ricardo

  Wisdom, Rights, Government

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo ...”, p.554

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