The Wealth of Nations Quotes

“The value of money is in proportion to the quantity of the necessaries of life which it will purchase.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:life money

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:happiness society misery

“It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:fear

“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects, too, are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention, in finding out...”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:understanding work difficulty

“I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:good

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

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:government money people

“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is, in reality, instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:government politics

“The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of...”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:government wealth

“Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the study of his own...”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:society

“A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:work

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