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Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.

Adam Smith

The rate of profit is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.
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Country Deep Destruction Fast Poor Profit Rich Ruin
Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
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Defense Government Institution Poor Property Reality Rich Security
Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
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Ambition Goodness Service
It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
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Active Country Greatness Production
I have no faith in political arithmetic.
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Belief Faith Myself One Liner Politics
The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
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Fair Perfection Right See World
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
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Consience Happiness Health Man Money
Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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Advice Experiment Focus Strategy
A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.
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Citizenship Country Necessary Property Trade
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
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Conversation End Happiness Leaving People Price Togetherness Trade
A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.
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Earth Generation Mad Nature Power Property Right
We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
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Philosophy Respect
It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
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Desire Man Money Power
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
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Defense Guard Hate Innocence Justice Nature Safety Security
All money is a matter of belief.
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Belief Money One Liner
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
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Beggar Choice Citizenship Independent

Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.

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