Jean-Baptiste Say

"Demand and supply are the opposite extremes of the beam, whence depend the scales of dearness and cheapness; the price is the point of equilibrium, where the momentum of the one ceases, and that of th…"

"Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital."

"The quantity of money, which is readily parted with to obtain a thing is called its price."

"With no fixed opinions in relation to the causes of public prosperity, the nation, like a ship without chart or compass, was driven about by the caprice of the winds and the folly of the pilot, alike …"

"The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour's vessel and my own."

"It is, perhaps, a well founded objection to Mr. Ricardo, that he sometimes reasons upon abstract principles to which he gives too great a generalization."

"Law has been unjustly charged with the whole blame of the calamities resulting from the scheme that bears his name."

"An uniformity of weights and measures, arranged upon mathematical principles, would be a benefit to the whole commercial world, if it were wise enough to adopt such an expedient."