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Quote DB :: Authors :: Adam Smith :: View Quote View Quote "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." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Adam Smith Listed in: Government Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 5  Rate Quote 5 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Adam Smith "Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only." "Every individual...generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention." "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 self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages." "That the innocent, though they may have some connexion or dependency upon the guilty (which, perhaps, they themselves cannot help), should not, upon that account, suffer or be punished for the guilty, is one of the plainest and most obvious rules of justice." "Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer." Top 5 quotes from Government "When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right." "The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry." "There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." "Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government." "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."

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