It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Now many such things may be done without intitling the people to rise in arms. A gross, flagrant, and palpable abuse no… — 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
The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
It may indeed be doubted whether butchers' meet is anywhere a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
That this is the source of our fellow-feeling for the misery of others, that it is by changing places in fancy with… — 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
“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
“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
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
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
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. — Adam Smith Copy Share
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
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
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
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to… — Adam Smith Copy Share
When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we… — Adam Smith Copy Share
