The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.

We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.

The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound

Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.