The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite….

The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy..

The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition . . . is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural prog….

In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will alw….

Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seem….

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

Man, an animal that makes bargains..

All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed..

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and deman….

A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people..

I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations..

It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society..

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest..

China is a much richer country than any part of Europe..

Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good..

To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty..

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence..

In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier p….

The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condit….

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another..

But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactu….