All money is a matter of belief.
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.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
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The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.
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Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another.
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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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Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.
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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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The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.
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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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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
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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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Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
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Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
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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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In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.
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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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