Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.
ADAM SMITHMercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.
ADAM SMITHGoods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.
ADAM SMITHResentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
ADAM SMITHNo society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
ADAM SMITHIn ease of body, peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level and the beggar who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.
ADAM SMITHA merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.
ADAM SMITHI have no faith in political arithmetic.
ADAM SMITHThe real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
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.
ADAM SMITHWhat is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
ADAM SMITHIt is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
ADAM SMITHAn instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
ADAM SMITHThe real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
ADAM SMITHWherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
ADAM SMITHThe disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.
ADAM SMITHThe violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
ADAM SMITH