Thus the labour of a manufacture adds, generally, to the value of the materials which he works upon, that of his own maintenance, and of his masters ….

Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respect a violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural liberty of a few ….

This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is ….

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent..

The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country..

Both ground- rents and the ordinary rent of land are a species of revenue which the owner, in many cases, enjoys without any care or attention of his….

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopke….

It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures..

But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in so….

Defense is superior to opulence..

Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade..

In raising the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates in the same manner as simple interest does in the accumulation of debt. Our merchants….

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity..