David Ricardo Quotes

The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.

The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.

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

It is not to be understood that the natural price of labour, estimated even in food and necessaries, is absolutely fixed and constant. It varies at different times in the same country and very materially differs in different countries. It essentially depends on the habits and customs of the people.