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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far g

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. – 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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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? – Adam Smith

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Happiness
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Adam Smith
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People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. – Adam Smith

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Unions
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For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. – Joe Biden

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I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. – Reuben Blades

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But the development of human society does not go straight forward and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series – though not in exact repetition. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not. – Jonathan Sacks

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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. – Max Stirner, The Ego and His Own

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