Adam Smith — "The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffere…"

The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle, that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often incumbers its operations.
Adam Smith — Adam Smith Early Modern · Wealth of Nations, capitalism

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The Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter V

Date: 1776

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