Acquire Quote by Adam Smith

We have continued reason to express our profound gratitude to the Great Creator of All Things for numberless benefits conferred upon us as a…

— John Tyler

An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings...than a lazy lounger...too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable…

— Thomas Jefferson

Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

“The produce of the soil maintains at all times nearly that number of inhabitants which it is capable of maintaining. The rich only select…

— Adam Smith

“Goods of production—material or immaterial—such as land, factories, practical or artistic skills, oblige their possessors to employ them in ways that will benefit the…

— Libreria Editrice Vaticana

The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few.

— Matthew McConaughey

And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has…

— Abraham Lincoln

It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than…

— Edmund Ruffin

“The most important economy, the only reasonable one, is to make life pleasant for all, because the man who is satisfied with his life…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but…

— Adam Smith

“According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purchased with it, bears a greater or smaller proportion to the number of those who are…

— Adam Smith

It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in…

— Pope John Paul II