Adam Smith — "The propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another is common to…"

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

"The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or at least to neglect, persons of poor and mean condition, though necessary both to establish and to maint…"

"Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens."

"The desire of riches, and the contempt of poverty, are the great and most universal causes of corruption of morals."

"The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable."