Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.
It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich for the rich. Government comprises a large part of the organized injustice in any society, ancient or modern.Civil government, insofar as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, and for the defence of those who have property against those who have none.
Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.
There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.
By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
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 is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.
Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
All money is a matter of belief.
Every man lives by exchanging.
Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
I have no faith in political arithmetic.
Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
The game women play is men.
The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Defense is superior to opulence.
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