The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.
Adam SmithAn instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
Adam SmithBut avarice and ambition in the rich, in the poor the hatred of labour and the love of present ease and enjoyment, are the passions which prompt to invade property, passions much more steady in their operation, and much more universal in their influence. Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many.
Adam SmithIt is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.
Adam Smith