Adam Smith — "The desire of building, and the love of distinction, are the passions which give…"

"The rich, by consuming the produce of the labour of the poor, in fact, employ them, and give them a maintenance."

"The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exe…"

"The first duty of the sovereign, therefore, is that of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies."

"The progress of opulence, therefore, naturally produces a greater rise in the real price of labour than in that of the rude produce of land."

"The whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country, or what comes to the same thing, the whole price of that annual produce, naturally divides itself, as has already been observed, into …"