In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.
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If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit.
No nation was ever ruined by trade.
The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.
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