John Ramsay McCulloch Quotes

• Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.

  John Ramsay McCulloch

  Minutes, Etiquette, Polite

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• No arbitrary regulation, no act of the legislature, can add anything to the capital of the country; it can only force it into artificial channels.

  John Ramsay McCulloch

  Country, Add, Arbitrary

  John Ramsay McCulloch (1849). “The Principles of Political Economy: With Some Inquiries Respecting Their Application, and a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Science”, p.226, Edinburgh : A. and C. Black

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• It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism.

  John Ramsay McCulloch

  Ocean, Men, Cities

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• The principle of laissez-faire may be safely trusted to in some things but in many more it is wholly inapplicable; and to appeal to it on all occasions savors more of the policy of a parrot than of a statesman or a philosopher.

  John Ramsay McCulloch

  Principles, May, Libertarian

  "The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain". Book by Roderick Floud, Volume 1. p. 363, 2014.

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