Defense is superior to opulence.
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.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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No complaint is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
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Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
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We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
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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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Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.
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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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The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
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Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.
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Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
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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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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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