A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The rate of profit... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
When the toll upon carriages of luxury, upon coaches, post-chaises, etc. is made somewhat higher in proportion to their weight, than upon… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labour.… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“The effects of the division of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily understood by considering in what manner it… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“The profligacy of a man of fashion is looked upon with much less contempt and aversion, than that of a man of meaner condition.” — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
