Slavery discourages arts and manufactures. George Mason
It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures. Adam Smith
Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade. Adam Smith
But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about. Adam Smith
The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures. Charles Babbage
Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of agriculture to be worse paid than the labours of trade and manufactures. Thomas Malthus