 It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They...  The Pamphleteer - Page 155edited by - 1818Full view - About this book
 | François Gauthier - Business & Economics - 1990 - 548 pages
...public prodigality and misconduct. [...] It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people [...] They are themsclves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Let them look... | |
 | Kent E. Calder - Business & Economics - 1995 - 404 pages
...Princeton Academic Press 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 It is the highest impertinence anil presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. —ADAM SMITH . . . for without vision the people perish. —ISAIAH... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 664 pages
...failing to make this distinction. Also, in any case, it was the "highest impertinence and presumption for kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people." "Let them look well after their own expence. and they may safely trust private people with theirs"... | |
 | R. H. Coase - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 234 pages
...public prodigality and misconduct" (p. 342). Again: It is the highest impertinence and presumption ... in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expence. . . . They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest... | |
 | Douglas A. Irwin - Business & Economics - 1998 - 290 pages
...restrain their expense either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and without any exception,...they may safely trust private people with theirs. lf their own extravagance does not ruin the state, that of their subjects never will" (ll.iii.36).... | |
 | Joyce Oldham Appleby - Knowledge, Sociology of - 1996 - 578 pages
...characteristical virtue of its inhabitants. It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expence, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - Fiscal policy - 1995 - 402 pages
...the world restoring the beacon of hope and liberty by our example. "It is the highest impertinence of kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign... | |
 | Isaac Kramnick, Robert Laurence Moore, R. Laurence Moore - History - 1997 - 196 pages
...commodity." Priestley was at one with Smith in arguing that "it is the highest impertinence and presumption in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private peoples." Individualism is as crucial in the economic as in the religious realm, Priestley insisted.... | |
 | Donald Rutherford - Classical school of economics - 1999 - 518 pages
...Laws, as by any other class of legislators. 'It is1 the highest impertinence and presumption therefore in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign... | |
 | Robert H. Frank - Competition - 2000 - 340 pages
...Smith's contempt for them. Thus, as he put it in The Wealth of Nations, It is the highest impertinence of kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws or by prohibiting the importation of foreign... | |
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