Adam Smith

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

The agents of [government] regard the wealth of their master as inexhaustible; are careless at what price they buy … at what price they sell.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

I’m using the term “First Spouse” instead of First Lady because I believe we will have a woman president.

I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as a result of dust storms, water erosion and wind erosion; I saw the effect of that on life – on human life.

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

John McCain fought in Vietnam – I think that he has enough civilian blood on his hands.

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

Don’t say “the White House wants.” Buildings can’t want.

It doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us…

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. I mean, there are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster’; instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do. If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees. But then you take a look at what the corporation does, the effect of its legal structure, the vast inequalities in pay and conditions, and you see the reality is something far different.

For the Leninist, the masses must be strictly disciplined, while the socialist will struggle to achieve a social order in which discipline “will become superfluous” as the freely associated producers “work for their own accord” (Marx).

Our great African-American President hasn’t exactly had a positive impact on the thugs who are so happily and openly destroying Baltimore.

Russia does not want confrontation of any kind. And we will not take part in any kind of ‘holy alliance.’

I don’t think I’m going to lose, but if I do, I don’t think you’re ever going to see me again, folks. I think I’ll go to Turnberry and play golf or something.

I decided to invite Donald Trump on his visit to Britain to come with me to my constituency because he has problems with Mexicans and he has problems with Muslims.

At last, Russia has returned to the world arena as a strong state – a country that others heed and that can stand up for itself.

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.