Axioms Quote by David Ricardo

It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always…

— David Ricardo

To alter the money value of commodities, by altering the value of money, and yet to raise the same money amount by taxes, is…

— David Ricardo

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

— David Ricardo

During the period of capital moving from one employment to another, the profits on that to which capital is flowing will be relatively high,…

— David Ricardo

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down…

— David Ricardo

If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of…

— David Ricardo

Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to…

— David Ricardo

The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.

— David Ricardo

Whether a bank lent one million, ten million, or a hundred millions, they would not permanently alter the market rate of interest; they would…

— David Ricardo

If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can…

— David Ricardo

I have already expressed my opinion on this subject in treating of rent, and have now only further to add, that rent is a…

— David Ricardo

A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its…

— David Ricardo