"Defense is superior to opulence." — Adam Smith

"Defense is superior to opulence."

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54 Quotes by Adam Smith

Adam Smith has 54 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of…
The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the…
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but…
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and…
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the…
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by…
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love…
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found…
All money is a matter of belief.

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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement. — Bashar al-Assad
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense… — Red Auerbach
The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the… — Stanley Baldwin
Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of… — Stanley Baldwin
It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know… — Ernie Banks
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. — Edward Abbey
Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense. — Bob Barr
Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the… — Frederic Bastiat
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. — Joseph Addison
Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive… — Conrad Black
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar… — Aeschylus
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? — W. E. B. Du Bois

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