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A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich for the rich. Government comprises a large part of the organized injustice in any

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich for the rich. Government comprises a large part of the organized injustice in any society, ancient or modern.Civil government, insofar as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, and for the defence of those who have property against those who have none.

Adam Smith
Reality, Government, Criminals

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.

Adam Smith
Reality, Government, Libertarian
Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.299

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

Adam Smith
Money, Reality, Scarcity
Adam Smith (2010). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.334, Cosimo, Inc.

Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.

Adam Smith
Country, Party, Reality
Adam Smith (1778). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.326

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