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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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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. – Adam Smith

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

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Right is more precious than peace. – Woodrow Wilson

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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace. – Walter Ulbricht

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These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations. – Frank B. Kellogg

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Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God. – Edwin Louis Cole

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