The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits;...
There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down....
Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.
There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.
Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.
In the course of these observations, I have often had occasion to insist, that rent never falls without the profits of stock rising.