3 Quotes by John Ramsay McCulloch

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

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.

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.