I have no faith in political arithmetic.
ADAM SMITHAll money is a matter of belief.
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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.
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Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
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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.
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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 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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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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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
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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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The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.
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It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.
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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
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As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.
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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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An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
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