It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
ADAM SMITHIn a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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Defense is superior to opulence.
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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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Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.
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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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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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Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
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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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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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How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.
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Man, an animal that makes bargains.
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Every man lives by exchanging.
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The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
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I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.
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An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . Hunted out of every corner of the world.
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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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