morality Quotes

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

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.

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.