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.
ADAM SMITHThe first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.
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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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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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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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I have no faith in political arithmetic.
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A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it’s people.
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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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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
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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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We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
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The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
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All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
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It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.
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Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.
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Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
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