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"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."
The Wealth of Nations, Book V Chapter II Pt II
"What improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconveniency to the whole. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."
The Wealth of Nations, Book I Chapter VIII
"The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition... is so powerful, that it alone, and without any assistance, is not only capable of carrying on the wealth of society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operation."
The Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Ch V
"It is in the interests of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are to be precisely the same, whether he does, or does not perform some very laborious duty, it is certainly his interest... to neglect it altogether"
The Wealth of Nations, Book V, Ch I, Part III
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