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1. Second Treatise of Government: Chapter I

Sect. 1. It having been shewn in the foregoing discourse,

2. Second Treatise of Government: Chapter XV

The power of the father doth not reach at all to the property of the child, which is only in his own disposing.

3. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book I, Chapter VI

The profits of stock, it may perhaps be thought, are only a different name for the wages of a particular sort of THE COMPONENT PART OF THE PRICE OF COMMODITIES.

4. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book I, Chapter IX

It is not easy, it has already been observed, to ascertain what are the average wages of labour, even in a particular place, and at a particular time.

5. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book IV, Chapter VII - Part I

All the other enterprizes of the Spaniards in the New World, subsequent to those of Columbus, seem to have been prompted by the same motive.

6. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book I, Chapter IV

When the division of labour has been once thoroughly established, it is but a very small part of a man’s wants which the produce of his own labour can supply.

7. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book I, Chapter III

As it is the power of exchanging that gives occasion to the division of labour so the extent of this division must always be limited by the extent of that power

8. Second Treatise of Government: Chapter IX

The great and chief end, therefore, of men’s uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property.

9. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book I, Chapter VII

There is in every society or neighbourhood an ordinary or average rate, both of wages and profit, in every different employment of labour and stock.

10. Second Treatise of Government: Chapter XVII

This, so far as it is usurpation, is a change only of persons, but not of the forms and rules of the government

11. Second Treatise of Government: Chapter X

Sect. 132. THE majority having, as has been shewed, upon men’s first uniting into society, the whole power of the community naturally in them

12. Second Treatise of Government - Table of Links

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13. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK.

The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life.

14. Second Treatise of Government: Chapter XII

THE legislative power is that which has a right to direct how the force of the commonwealth shall be employed for preserving the community and the members of it

15. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book I, Chapter II

This division of labour, from which so many advantages are derived, is not originally the effect of any human wisdom.

16. Second Treatise of Government: Chapter III

Sect. 16. THE state of war is a state of enmity and destruction: and therefore declaring by word or action, not a passionate and hasty

17. Second Treatise of Government: Chapter IV

THE natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man

18. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book III - Chapter IV

It is a mistake to imagine that those territorial jurisdictions took their origin from the feudal law.

19. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book IV, Chapter I

Others admit, that if a nation could be separated from all the world, it would be of no consequence how much or how little money circulated in it.

20. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book II - Introduction

But when the division of labour has once been thoroughly introduced, the produce of a man’s own labour can supply but a very small part of his occasional wants.

21. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book V, Chapter II - Part I

Small republics have sometimes derived a considerable revenue from the profit of mercantile projects.

22. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book IV, Chapter IV.

Merchants and manufacturers are not contented with the monopoly of the home market, but desire likewise the most extensive foreign sale for their goods.

23. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book I, Chapter I.

The greatest improvements in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment.

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25. Second Treatise of Government: Chapter XIII

THOUGH in a constituted commonwealth, standing upon its own basis, and acting according to its own nature, that is, acting for the preservation of the community

26. Second Treatise of Government: Chapter XI

The great and chief end, therefore, of men’s uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property.

27. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book V, Chapter I - Part IV

Over and above the expenses necessary for enabling the sovereign to perform his several duties, a certain expense is requisite for the support of his dignity.

28. Second Treatise of Government: Chapter XIV

WHERE the legislative and executive power are in distinct hands,there the good of the society requires, that several things should be left to the discretion

29. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book III - Chapter I

The great commerce of every civilized society is that carried on between the inhabitants of the town and those of the country.

30. Second Treatise of Government: Chapter XVIII

AS usurpation is the exercise of power, which another hath a right to; so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which no body can have a right to.

31. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book V, Chapter I - Part II

Men who have no property, can injure one another only in their persons or reputations.

32. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book IV, Chapter III

Of the Unreasonableness of those Restraints, even upon the Principles of the Commercial System.

33. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book II - Chapter III

There is one sort of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed; there is another which has no such effect.

34. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book II - Chapter I

When the stock which a man possesses is no more than sufficient to maintain him for a few days or a few weeks, he seldom thinks of deriving any revenue from it.

35. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book II - Chapter IV

The stock which is lent at interest is always considered as a capital by the lender.

36. Second Treatise of Government: Chapter II

A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another

37. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book IV, Chapter VI

It is but a very small part of this importation which, it can be supposed, is employed as an annual addition, either to the plate or to the coin of the kingdom.

38. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book III - Chapter II

This original engrossing of uncultivated lands, though a great, might have been but a transitory evil.

39. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book I, Chapter V

Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniencies, and amusements of human life.

40. Second Treatise of Government: Chapter V

Psal. cxv. 16. has given the earth to the children of men; given it to mankind in common.

41. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book IV, Chapter II

The general industry of the society can never exceed what the capital of the society can employ.

42. Second Treatise of Government: Chapter VII

Conjugal society is made by a voluntary compact between man and woman; and tho’ it consist chiefly in such a communion and right in one another’s bodies

43. Second Treatise of Government: Chapter XIX

Ought in the first place to distinguish between the dissolution of the society and the dissolution of the government.

44. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book V, Chapter I - Part I

The first duty of the sovereign, that of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies

45. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book IV, Chapter VII - Part II

The progress of many of the ancient Greek colonies towards wealth and greatness seems accordingly to have been very rapid.

46. Second Treatise of Government: Chapter VI

Honour thy father and thy mother, Exod. xx. 12. Whosoever curseth his father or his mother, Lev. xx. 9.

47. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book I, Chapter VIII

The produce of labour constitutes the natural recompence or wages of labour.

48. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book III - Chapter III

The inhabitants of cities and towns were, after the fall of the Roman empire, not more favoured than those of the country.

49. Second Treatise of Government: Chapter VIII

MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another

50. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book IV, Chapter VIII

Though the encouragement of exportation, and the discouragement of importation.

51. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book II - Chapter V

No equal capital puts into motion a greater quantity of productive labour than that of the farmer.

52. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book IV, Chapter IX

If the rod be bent too much one way, says the proverb, in order to make it straight, you must bend it as much the other.

53. Second Treatise of Government: Chapter XVI

Indeed, it often makes way for a new frame of a commonwealth, by destroying the former; but, without the consent of the people, can never erect a new one.

54. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book IV, Chapter V

Bounties upon exportation are, in Great Britain, frequently petitioned for, and sometimes granted, to the produce of particular branches of domestic industry.

55. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book V, Chapter III

A part of their wool and raw hides, they had generally an opportunity of selling for money.

56. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book II - Chapter II

Money, therefore, is the only part of the circulating capital of a society, of which the maintenance can occasion any diminution in their neat revenue.

57. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book I, Chapter X

Every man’s interest would prompt him to seek the advantageous, and to shun the disadvantageous employment.

58. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book IV, Chapter VII - Part III

Such are the advantages which the colonies of America have derived from the policy of Europe.

59. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book V, Chapter II - Part II

Civil government supposes a certain subordination.

60. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book I, Chapter XI

The rent of land, it may be thought, is frequently no more than a reasonable profit or interest for the stock laid out by the landlord upon its improvement.

61. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book V, Chapter I - Part III

The third and last duty of the sovereign or commonwealth, is that of erecting and maintaining those public institutions and those public works.

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