There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
ADAM SMITHA very poor man may be said in some sense to have a demand for a coach and six; he might like to have it; but his demand is not an effectual demand, as the commodity can never be brought to market in order to satisfy it.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
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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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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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The 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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The rate of profit is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.
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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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Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.
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Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
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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.
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Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.
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People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
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Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.
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Defense is superior to opulence.
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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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