There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
ADAM SMITHLabor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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A very poor man may be said in some sense to have a demand for a coach and six; he might like to have it; but his demand is not an effectual demand, as the commodity can never be brought to market in order to satisfy it.
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Defense is superior to opulence.
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Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.
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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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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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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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Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
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I am a beau in nothing but my books.
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We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
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The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
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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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All money is a matter of belief.
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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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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
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