The importance of the services which he renders leads us to endure, though not without complaint, the taxes which he imposes.

Nevertheless, since nothing can avoid its providential mission, since nothing which exists can escape the end for which it exists the banker (the modern Croesus) must some day become the restorer of equality.

And following in your footsteps, sir, I have already given the reason; namely, that profit decreases as capital multiplies, since an increase of capital--calling for more laborers, without whom it remains unproductive--always causes an increase of wages.

Whence it follows that the Bank, to-day the suction-pump of wealth, is destined to become the steward of the human race.
The phrase EQUALITY OF FORTUNES chafes people, as if it referred to a condition of the other world, unknown here below.

There are some persons, radicals as well as moderates, whom the very mention of this idea fills with indignation.