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