"The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the necessary effect, so it is the natural symptom of increasing national wealth."

"The poor, in order to obtain the means of subsistence, are obliged to undergo the drudgery and hardships of the meanest employments, and to expose themselves to the greatest dangers, in order to gain …"

"The most important consequences of the division of labour have been, first, the great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of it, the same number of people are capable of performing;…"

"The value of a commodity, or the quantity of any other commodity for which it will exchange, depends on the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command."

"Justice, however, is the main pillar that upholds the whole edifice. If it is removed, the great, the immense fabric of human society, that fabric which to raise and support seems in this world, if I …"