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Adam Smith on Slavery
By this we may see what a miserable life the slaves must have led; their life and their property ...
Adam Smith on Happiness, Tranquility, and Enjoyment
Happiness consists in tranquillity and enjoyment. Without tranquillity there can be no enjoyment;...
Adam Smith on Religion and the Rules of Morality
These natural hopes, and fears, and suspicions, were propagated by sympathy, and confirmed by edu...
Adam Smith on money as an instrument of commerce as well as a measure of value
That wealth consists in money, or in gold and silver, is a popular notion which naturally arises ...
Horace Say on “I, Pin” and the international division of labor (1852)
If Adam Smith had extended his analysis, he might have shown that many other partial operations a...
Adam Smith on the Sympathy one feels for those Vanquished in a battle rather than for the Victors (1762)
.. it is with the misfortunes of others that we most commonly as well as most deeply sympathise.—...
Adam Smith on the rigorous education of young Fitzmaurice (1759)
The College breaks up in the beginning of June and does not sit down again till the beginning of ...
Adam Smith on the legitimacy of using force to ensure justice (1759)
There is, however, another virtue, of which the observance is not left to the freedom of our own ...
Adam Smith on the illegitimacy of using force to promote beneficence (1759)
Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force, the mere want of it exposes to no pun...
Adam Smith on how Government Regulation and Taxes might drive a Man to Drink (1766)
Man is an anxious animal and must have his care swept off by something that can exhilarate the sp...
Adam Smith argued that the “propensity to truck, barter, and exchange” was inherent in human nature and gave rise to things such as the division of labour (1776)
This division of labour, from which so many advantages are derived, is not originally the effect ...
Adam Smith, Selfishness, and Sympathy
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which ...
John Adams argues that the British Empire is not a “true” empire but a form of a “republic” where the rule of law operates (1763)
[T]he British constitution is much more like a republic than an empire. They define a republic to...
Adam Smith on why people obey and defer to their rulers (1759)
Even when the order of society seems to require that we should oppose them, we can hardly bring o...
Adam Smith argues that the Habeas Corpus Act is a great security against the tyranny of the king (1763)
The Habeas Corpus Act is also a great security against oppression, as by it any one can procure t...
Adam Smith on the Dangers of sacrificing one’s Liberty for the supposed benefits of the “lordly servitude of a court” (1759)
Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but...
Adam Smith on the “Wonder, Surprise, and Admiration” one feels when contemplating the physical World (1795)
We wonder at all extraordinary and uncommon objects, at all the rarer phaenomena of nature, at me...
Adam Smith on the “liberal system” of free trade (1776)
Were all nations to follow the liberal system of free exportation and free importation, the diffe...
Adam Smith on the natural ordering Tendency of Free Markets, or what he called the “Invisible Hand” (1776)
… by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he int...
Adam Smith on the need for “peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice” (1755)
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barba...