In 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.
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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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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Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
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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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Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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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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Ask any rich man of common prudence to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of his stock, to those who, he thinks, will employ it profitably, or to those who will spend it idly, and he will laugh at you for proposing the question.
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Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
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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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Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.
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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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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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I have no faith in political arithmetic.
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The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market.
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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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