"To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit f…"

"The whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country, or what comes to the same thing, the whole price of that annual produce, naturally divides itself, as has already been observed, into …"

"The desire of food is not to be gratified in order to obtain the regard of other people, but merely in order to appease the appetite."

"The property of a master in the service of his servants is not a thing that is found in any of the fundamental laws of nature."

"The poor, in order to obtain the means of subsistence, are obliged to undergo the drudgery and hardships of the meanest employments, and to expose themselves to the greatest dangers, in order to gain …"