Adam Smith

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner."

"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."

"The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations."

"Labor was the first price, the original purchase money that was paid for all things."