Quotes by : Adam Smith

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.....

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps....

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men,....

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile....

The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the....

To attempt to increase the wealth of any country, either by introducing or by detaining in it an unnecessary....

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by....

No apprenticeship has ever been thought necessary to qualify for husbandry, the great trade of the country.....

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism....

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for....