Every man lives by exchanging..

Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog..

The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance, capable not only of c….

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render th….

Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that….

Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force..

In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate..

By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I h….

It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to rest….

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….

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….

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

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….

I have no faith in political arithmetic..

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..

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….

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,….

A sketch of a man facing to the right..

It may indeed be doubted whether butchers' meet is anywhere a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of milk, cheese, and butte….

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..