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

It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so,….

Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To depart upon any….

The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go….

Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity..

Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the s….

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument ….

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….

I have no faith in political arithmetic..

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessar….

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

When the toll upon carriages of luxury, upon coaches, post-chaises, etc. is made somewhat higher in proportion to their weight, than upon carriages o….

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than i….

It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be ….

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, h….

Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public in….

We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it..

The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do..

A sketch of a man facing to the right..

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production..

Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interes….