“The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws...”

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard...”

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”

“You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.”

“All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.”

“At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race econom...”

“For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.”

“Peace is a natural effect of trade.”

“There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.”

“Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.”

“I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift h...”

“It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic pow...”