David Hume Quotes About Commodities

Quotes about: Commodities

• Time is a perishable commodity.

  David Hume

  Time Management, Management, Commodity

• Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.

  David Hume

  Wise, Government, People

  David Hume (1754). “ESSAYS AND TREATISES ON SEVERAL SUBJECTS.”, p.140

• The best taxes are such as are levied upon consumptions, especially those of luxury; because such taxes are least felt by the people. They seem, in some measure, voluntary; since a man may choose how far he will use the commodity: They naturally produce sobriety and frugality, if judiciously imposed: And being confounded with the natural price of the commodity, they are scarcely perceived by the consumers. Their only disadvantage is that they are expensive in the levying.

  David Hume

  Men, Luxury, People

  David Hume (1826). “The philosophical works of David Hume”, p.387

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