The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare... ….

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..

There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people..

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..

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer..

Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with w….

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

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which….

Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the ….

A very poor man may be said in some sense to have a demand for a coach and six; he might like to have it; but his demand is not an effectual demand, ….

The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money..

A monopoly granted either to an individual or to a trading company has the same effect as a secret in trade or manufactures. The monopolists, by keep….

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich for the rich. Gov….

When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers..

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself..

A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country..

Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back.

To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia sh….

The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market.