Detail Opinion The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation. - Adam Smith
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. - Adam Smith
Men The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. - Adam Smith
Money World First Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. - Adam Smith
Public I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. - 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