Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
ADAM SMITHAs 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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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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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 problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.
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What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
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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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By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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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.
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Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.
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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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I have no faith in political arithmetic.
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That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.
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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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Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.
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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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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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Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
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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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Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
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In 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.
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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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Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
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Wonder and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.
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A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.
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