More by Adam Smith
It is reason, principle, conscience, the inhabitant of the breast, the man within, the great judge and arbiter of our conduct.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
It proposes to enrich both the people and the sovereign.
The Wealth of Nations (1776)
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.
The Wealth of Nations (1776)
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
The Wealth of Nations (1776)
Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.
The Wealth of Nations (1776)
It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
The Wealth of Nations (1776)
The value of money is in proportion to the quantity of the necessaries of life which it will purchase.
The Wealth of Nations (1776)
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