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Adam Smith

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

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Adam Smith

The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.

Foundation Man Property

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Adam Smith

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

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Adam Smith

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.

Country Demand Land Love Man Natural Privacy Produce Property

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Adam Smith

A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.

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Adam Smith

A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.

Citizenship Country Necessary Property Trade