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The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce (Adam Smith Quotes)
But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about (Adam Smith Quotes)
A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country (Adam Smith Quotes)
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 (Adam Smith Quotes)
When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers (Adam Smith Quotes)
Money no doubt, makes always a part of the national capital; but it has already been shown that it generally makes but a small part, and always the most unprofitable part of it (Adam Smith Quotes)
Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods (Adam Smith Quotes)
It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it (Adam Smith Quotes)
The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade (Adam Smith Quotes)
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 should never be established in it (Adam Smith Quotes)
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 (Adam Smith Quotes)
Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity: (Adam Smith Quotes)
In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly (Adam Smith Quotes)
I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations (Adam Smith Quotes)
The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever (Adam Smith Quotes)
Monopoly of one kind or another, indeed, seems to be the sole engine of the mercantile system (Adam Smith Quotes)
The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons (Adam Smith Quotes)
The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune (Adam Smith Quotes)
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 smallest pretensions to independency (Adam Smith Quotes)
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 (Adam Smith Quotes)
The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary (Adam Smith Quotes)
Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it (Adam Smith Quotes)
Every tax ought to be contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state (Adam Smith Quotes)
The evident justice and utility of the foregoing maxims have recommended them more or less to the attention of all nations (Adam Smith Quotes)
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality (Adam Smith Quotes)
All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist (Adam Smith Quotes)
The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it (Adam Smith Quotes)
Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life (Adam Smith Quotes)
The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster (Adam Smith Quotes)
Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this - one dog does not change a bone with another (Adam Smith Quotes)