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Wealth, as Mr. Hobbes says, is power. ... Adam Smith

No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which the greater part of the member are poor and m... Adam Smith

Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate the difference between masters and their workmen, its c... Adam Smith

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to havebeen the vi... Adam Smith

In a society of an hundred thousand families, there will perhaps be one hundred who don'tlabour at al... Adam Smith

Masters are always and every where in a sort of tacit but constant and uniform combination not to rai... Adam Smith

Our merchants and master manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the... Adam Smith

Laws and governments may be considereed in this and indeed every case, as a combination of the rich t... Adam Smith

When I was in poverty day in and day out, I often heard people say things like, Just pull yourself up... Ellen Smith

When a country--particularly a democracy--goes to war, the passive consent of the governed lubricates... Norman Solomon