Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.
ADAM SMITHEvery tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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The game women play is men.
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I have no faith in political arithmetic.
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Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.
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The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.
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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
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I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.
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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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I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
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Ask any rich man of common prudence to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of his stock, to those who, he thinks, will employ it profitably, or to those who will spend it idly, and he will laugh at you for proposing the question.
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Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
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The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
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The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be. The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough.
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Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State.
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The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
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In ease of body, peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level and the beggar who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.
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Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
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A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.
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Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
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He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
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Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another.
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By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
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There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
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The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
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The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.
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