Defense is superior to opulence.
ADAM SMITHAn instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
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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 real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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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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The rate of profit is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.
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Resentment 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.
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In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
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Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.
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The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.
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It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.
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The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
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Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.
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I am a beau in nothing but my books.
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