Logo
Quote by Adam Smith
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a peopl

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 for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers. – Adam Smith

Other quotes by Adam Smith

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. – Adam Smith

Category:
Nature
Author
Adam Smith
Read Quote

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. – Adam Smith

Category:
Society
Author
Adam Smith
Read Quote

Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. – Adam Smith

Category:
Money
Author
Adam Smith
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Empire
category

Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Category:
Empire

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. – William McKinley

Category:
Empire

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. – Aristotle

Category:
Empire

Empires built on force will always be destroyed. Those built on trust in Christ will remain. – Joseph R. Sizoo

Category:
Empire

Random Quotes

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect peoples sacred status, regardless of the pest. – Steve Irwin

Category:
dad

I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when Im done is write another one. Then I dont feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away. – John Hughes

Category:
sad

Im a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didnt understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughters school. – Alton Brown

Category:
Food

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. – Thomas Carlyle

Category:
Hope