By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound
Adam SmithMen desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.
Adam SmithThe liberal reward of labor, therefore, as it is the necessary effect, so it is the natural symptom of increasing national wealth. The scanty maintenance of the laboring poor, on the other hand, is the natural symptom that things are at a stand, and their starving condition that they going backwards fast.
Adam Smith