...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....

...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...of private people, and to restrain their expense. —ADAM SMITH . . . for without vision the people perish. —ISAIAH Contents List of Figures ¡x List...

...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"...

...impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct" (p. 342). Again: It is the highest impertinence and presumption ......the economy of private people, and to restrain their expence. . . . They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in...

...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 luxuries. They are...

...impede the alienation of land, or of any other commodity." Priestley was at one with Smith in arguing that "it is the highest impertinence and presumption...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....

...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 luxuries. They are themselves...

...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...of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves...

...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 luxuries. They are themselves...

...be consistent with liberty and justice. The Wealth of Nations (1776) 1937:Book 1, chap. 10, 128. is It is the highest impertinence and presumption. ....kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the oeconomy of private people, and to restrain their expence. . . Let them look well after their own expence,...