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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of

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. – Adam Smith

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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. – Adam Smith

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Fear
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Adam Smith
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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

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Empire
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When we cant find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere. – Proverb

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Peace

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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Peace

There can be no vulnerability without risk there can be no community without vulnerability there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community. – M. Scott Peck

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Peace

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. – Omar N. Bradley

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Peace

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No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. – William Ellery Channing, 1838

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Attitude

The motive power of the safety-first movement is a realization of the fact that lives and limbs need not be sacrificed to any desired result… – The Anode by the Bureau of Safety of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co., March 1917

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Safety

Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. Its almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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Faith

In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us. – Linda Chavez

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respect