Defense is superior to opulence.
ADAM SMITHIt appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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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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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
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That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.
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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
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Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.
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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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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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The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
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He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
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Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.
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Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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Man, an animal that makes bargains.
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The game women play is men.
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