Quote by Adam Smith

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.

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest deg

Summary

This quote suggests that achieving prosperity and advancement in a society requires only a few fundamental factors: peace, low taxation, and a fair legal system. According to the quote, these elements alone can propel a nation from a primitive and uncivilized state to the pinnacle of wealth and development. The quote implies that the desired progress will occur naturally without the need for additional intervention or external factors. Essentially, it emphasizes the importance of stability, economic ease, and just governance as the driving forces behind a nation's rise to opulence.

Topics

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

There is only one day left, always starting over: It is give

There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Jean Paul Sartre

Inspirational Carpe Diem

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Wallace Stevens

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truthand listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.

Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories w

Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get away from the hurt of them. She could leave Eric, walk out of her apartment, walk forever if she liked, but she couldn't escape what really hurt. Tonight even the sky felt like a prison.

Love Body Hurt Prison Walk Escape Memories Leave

Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

I'm looking forward to the peace of mind to just write... So

I'm looking forward to the peace of mind to just write... Songwriting is something that I just fell into. I never expected to love it. But I've always had to kind of treat it like a hobby. Now it's going to feel so good to know that I can just sit down and write.

Love Peace Mind

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needle

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Benjamin Franklin

The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject

The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.

You are not a victim. No matter what you have been through,

You are not a victim. No matter what you have been through, you're still here. You may have been challenged, hurt, betrayed, beaten, and discouraged, but nothing has defeated you. You are still here! You have been delayed but not denied. You are not a victim, you are a victor. You have a history of victory.

History Motivational Inspirational Hurt Destiny Beaten Betrayed Challenged Defeated Denied Discouraged Victim

If then a practical end must be assigned to a University cou

If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society. Its art is the art of social life, and its end is fitness for the world. It neither confines its views to particular professions on the one hand, nor creates heroes or inspires genius on the other. Works indeed of genius fall under no art; heroic minds come under no rule; a University is not a birthplace of poets or of immortal authors, of founders of schools, leaders of colonies, or conquerors of nations. It does not promise a generation of Aristotles or Newtons, of Napoleons or Washingtons, of Raphaels or Shakespeares, though such miracles of nature it has before now contained within its precincts. Nor is it content on the other hand with forming the critic or the experimentalist, the economist or the engineer, though such too it includes within its scope. But a University training is the great ordinary means to an great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the age, at facilitating the exercise of political power, and refining the intercourse of private life. It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them.

John Henry Newman, Idea of a Uni

My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every

My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.

The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.

The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.

Emily Dickinson