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Quotation from Hamilton's Reports and Opinion on the Bank by Alexander Hamilton
“It has justly been observed, that there is scarcely any thing of greater moment in the economy of a nation than the proper division of labor.”
Hamilton's Reports and Opinion on the Bank, Report on Manufactures (1791), first advantage (Lodge, Works of Alexander Hamilton (Federal Edition, 1904), vol. 4)
The opening of Hamilton's list of the advantages that manufactures bring to a nation.
Citation: "It has justly been observed, that there is scarcely any thing of greater moment in the economy of a nation than the proper division of labor." — Alexander Hamilton, Hamilton's Reports and Opinion on the Bank, Report on Manufactures (1791), first advantage (Lodge, Works of Alexander Hamilton (Federal Edition, 1904), vol. 4). (id hamiltons-reports-and-opinion-on-the-bank-q6)
Portrait: Google Arts Project - Alexander Hamilton (1792 portrait) by John Trumbull, John Trumbull, Public domain.
