PITHY QUOTES FROM PAST MASTERS
If it should be found impracticable for Great Britain to draw any considerable augmentation of revenue from any of the resources above mentioned; the only resource which can remain to her is a diminution of her expence.
The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Book V Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth. Chapter III Of publick Debts