Adam Smith Quotations..

• Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
  Adam Smith # Government, Property, Rich, Poverty, Economic, Politics Quotes
• How selfish so ever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.
  Adam Smith # Selfish, Life Quotes
• Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man or order of men.
  Adam Smith # Freedom, Capitalist, Competition Quotes
• It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.
  Adam Smith # Government, Economic, Private, Society Quotes
• I have no faith in political arithmetic.
  Adam Smith # Faith, Politics Quotes
• Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so.
  Adam Smith # Society, Life Quotes
• The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.
  Adam Smith # Stocks, World, Society Quotes
• Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigality and misconduct.
  Adam Smith # Capitalist Quotes

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