Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
ADAM SMITHA 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.
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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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The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
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Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
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I am a beau in nothing but my books.
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Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
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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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A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.
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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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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
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The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be. The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough.
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Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
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There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
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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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All money is a matter of belief.
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