Famous quotes containing the words adam smith, adam, smith and/or society:
“Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.”
—Adam Smith (1723–1790)
“And al was for an appel,”
—Unknown. Adam Lay Ibounden (l. 5)
“Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)
“Last evening attended Croghan Lodge International Order of Odd Fellows. Election of officers. Chosen Noble Grand. These social organizations have a number of good results. All who attend are educated in self-government. This in a marked way. They bind society together. The well-to-do and the poor should be brought together as much as possible. The separation into classes—castes—is our danger. It is the danger of all civilizations.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)