What is capital?

Famous quotes containing the word capital:

    Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
    Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

    That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.
    Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

    I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
    James Madison (1751–1836)