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.
ADAM SMITHThe 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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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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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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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
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No complaint is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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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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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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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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Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
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All money is a matter of belief.
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Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
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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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An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
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