To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Every tax, however, is to the person who pays it a badge, not of slavery but of liberty. It denotes that he… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless,… — 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… — 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
