Conscience Happiness Man What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? - Adam Smith
Public I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. - Adam Smith
Society No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. - Adam Smith
Men Love As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. - Adam Smith
People With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches. - Adam Smith
Superiority Desire Man Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition. - Adam Smith
Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth. - Benjamin Tucker
And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change. - John Perkins