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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. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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.


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

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

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

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

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

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. 

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

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. 

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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Modern industrialism is a struggle between nations for two things, markets and raw materials, as well as for the sheer pleasure of dominion.

Modern Industrialism is a Struggle for Two Things - Markets and Raw Materials 

Among the causes of the rise of rent, Mr. Malthus mentions, "such an increase of population as will lower the wages of labour." 

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