Famous Quotes in History by Adam Smith - 1

Affulence

The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

Education

The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters.

Government

There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

Society

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.