We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
ADAM SMITHA 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.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.
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Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
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In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.
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In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.
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Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
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It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.
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Man, an animal that makes bargains.
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Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.
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Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
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I am a beau in nothing but my books.
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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
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An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
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The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
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