--- title: "13 Ought Quotes By Adam Smith" description: "13 Ought quotes by Adam Smith. Plus more from Adam Smith and more Ought sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da6/adam-smith-1040_expenses_it-must-always-be-remembered-however-tha_2172813.jpg" --- > [It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/it-must-always-be-remembered-however-that-it-is-the-luxuries-and-not/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da6/adam-smith-1040_expenses_it-must-always-be-remembered-however-tha_2172813.jpg) > [Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/every-tax-ought-to-be-so-contrived-as-both-to-take-out-and-to-keep/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/296/adam-smith-1040_littles_every-tax-ought-to-be-so-contrived-as-bo_1909174.jpg) > [Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/consumption-is-the-sole-end-and-purpose-of-all-production-and-the/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d7/adam-smith-1040_consumer_consumption-is-the-sole-end-and-purpose_814711.jpg) > [All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/all-registers-which-it-is-acknowledged-ought-to-be-kept-secret-ought/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/338/adam-smith-1040_kept-secrets_all-registers-which-it-is-acknowledged-o_1412859.jpg) > [Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/fear-is-in-almost-all-cases-a-wretched-instrument-of-government-and/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e9/adam-smith-1040_cases_fear-is-in-almost-all-cases-a-wretched-i_2143772.jpg) > [The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/the-subjects-of-every-state-ought-to-contribute-towards-the-support/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a51/adam-smith-1040_ability_the-subjects-of-every-state-ought-to-con_2715259.jpg) > [To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/to-hinder-besides-the-farmer-from-selling-his-goods-at-all-times-to/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/078/adam-smith-1040_all-time_to-hinder-besides-the-farmer-from-sellin_2554737.jpg) > [The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be... The natural disposition is always to believe. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/the-man-scarce-lives-who-is-not-more-credulous-than-he-ought-to-be/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/730/adam-smith-1040_believe_the-man-scarce-lives-who-is-not-more-cre_1613501.jpg) > [The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/the-subjects-of-every-state-ought-to-contribute-toward-the-support-of/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7af/adam-smith-1040_ability_the-subjects-of-every-state-ought-to-con_2267100.jpg) > [ The interest of \[businessmen\] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/the-interest-of-businessmen-is-always-in-some-respects-different-from/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75d/adam-smith-1040_adopted_the-interest-of-businessmen-is-always-in_2983313.jpg) > [People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/people-of-the-same-trade-seldom-meet-together-even-for-merriment-and-3/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d83/adam-smith-1040_assembling_people-of-the-same-trade-seldom-meet-tog_2598770.jpg) > [Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respect a violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/such-regulations-may-no-doubt-be-considered-as-in-some-respect-a/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b6/adam-smith-1040_banking_such-regulations-may-no-doubt-be-conside_369512.jpg) > [Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/consumption-is-the-sole-end-and-purpose-of-all-production-and-the-2/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1bf/adam-smith-1040_absurd_consumption-is-the-sole-end-and-purpose_1050212.jpg) ## Other authors on Ought ## More by Adam Smith > [Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/poor-david-hume-is-dying-fast-but-with-more-real-cheerfulness-and/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) > [“The effects of the division of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily understood by considering in what manner it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/the-effects-of-the-division-of-labour-in-the-general-business-of/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) > [Defense is superior to opulence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/defense-is-superior-to-opulence/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) > [“There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/there-is-a-great-deal-of-ruin-in-a-nation/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) > [“The profligacy of a man of fashion is looked upon with much less contempt and aversion, than that of a man of meaner condition.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/the-profligacy-of-a-man-of-fashion-is-looked-upon-with-much-less/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) > [Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/great-ambition-the-desire-of-real-superiority-of-leading-and/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) > [People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/people-of-the-same-trade-seldom-meet-together-even-for-merriment-and/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) > [Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/nobody-but-a-beggar-chooses-to-depend-chiefly-upon-the-benevolence-of/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) > [How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/how-selfish-soever-man-may-be-supposed-there-are-evidently-some/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) > [The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/the-liberal-reward-of-labour-therefore-as-it-is-the-affect-of/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) > [A sketch of a man facing to the right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/a-sketch-of-a-man-facing-to-the-right/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) > [What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/what-can-be-added-to-the-happiness-of-a-man-who-is-in-health-out-of/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) > [It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/it-is-not-from-the-benevolence-of-the-butcher-the-brewer-or-the-baker/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) > [When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/when-we-have-read-a-book-or-poem-so-often-that-we-can-no-longer-find/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) > [We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/we-are-but-one-of-the-multitude-in-no-respect-better-than-any-other/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ought/adam-smith/#itemlist", "name": "13 Ought Quotes By Adam Smith", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Adam Smith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/it-must-always-be-remembered-however-that-it-is-the-luxuries-and-not/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da6/adam-smith-1040_expenses_it-must-always-be-remembered-however-tha_2172813.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da6/adam-smith-1040_expenses_it-must-always-be-remembered-however-tha_2172813.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da6/adam-smith-1040_expenses_it-must-always-be-remembered-however-tha_2172813.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the…” — Adam Smith", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Adam Smith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/every-tax-ought-to-be-so-contrived-as-both-to-take-out-and-to-keep/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/296/adam-smith-1040_littles_every-tax-ought-to-be-so-contrived-as-bo_1909174.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/296/adam-smith-1040_littles_every-tax-ought-to-be-so-contrived-as-bo_1909174.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/296/adam-smith-1040_littles_every-tax-ought-to-be-so-contrived-as-bo_1909174.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as…” — Adam Smith", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; 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The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ... ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined ... with the most suspicious attention. 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It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty or justice. 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