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Quote DB :: Authors :: Adam Smith :: View Quote View Quote "If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Adam Smith Listed in: Justice, Liberty Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.25  Rate Quote 4 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Adam Smith "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." "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." Top 5 quotes from Justice, Liberty "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel." "The people are their own liberators." "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

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