Adam Smith — "The desire of food is not to be gratified in order to obtain wealth, but the des…"

"The love of praise, and the dread of blame, are, in a great measure, the springs of our activity."

"The second duty of the sovereign, that of protecting, as far as possible, every member of the society from the injustice or oppression of every other member of it, or the duty of establishing an exact…"

"The labour of the manufacturer fixes and realizes itself in some particular subject or vendible commodity, which lasts for some time at least after that labour is past. The labour of the menial servan…"

"The greatest fault of the rich is that they are less sensible of the wants of the poor than the poor are of the wants of the rich."

"The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public."