Defense is superior to opulence.
ADAM SMITHScience is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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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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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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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 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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The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers.
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I have no faith in political arithmetic.
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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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As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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A 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.
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What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
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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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He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
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