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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.

Adam Smith

Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
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Ambition Goodness Service
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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Animal Man Race
Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.
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Destruction Greatness Nation Poor Privacy
No complaint is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
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Complaint Money
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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Fools Generation Money Problem Reward Save Work
Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
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Dignity Fortune Man Moral Small
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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Age Kind Man Master Ourselves People World
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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Flourish Greatness Happiness Misery Poor Society
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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Faith Greatness Myself Politics
An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
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Ignorance Instruction Intelligence Oneself Order People Stupidity
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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Character Different Garden Hands Independent Money Pay Person Production
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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Country Demand Land Love Man Natural Privacy Produce Property
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
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Beggar Choice Citizenship Independent
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
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Consumption End Production Purpose
Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
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Equality Greatness Injustice Material Property
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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Employment Greatness Loss Natural Profit Prosperity Trade

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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