Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
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.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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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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Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.
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No complaint is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
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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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Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
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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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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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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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An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
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A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.
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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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Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
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Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
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When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.
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