...this particular subject; he has laid down with his accustomed accuracy the general principle, that "the property which every man has in his own labour,...the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable." After stating the law, he points out the evil as it still exists...

...(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1952), 234-46. 19. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations 1.10.2: "The property which every man has in his own labour,...the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable." The "sacred rights of property" are mentioned again in 1. 11....

...which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a...poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his own hands; and to hinder him from employing his strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper...

...wholly left to the invisible hand of the market. This would not detract from the fact, however, that "the property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable".62 According to Smith the "propensity to truck,...

...correct measure. Many a passage from his Wealth of Nations would otherwise be inexplicable. He spoke of 'the property which every man has in his own labour,...the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable', etc. Only such ideas as these can explain why Adam Smith had...

...cultivates and can use the product of, so much is his property' (1956: 17). Adam Smith echoed this: 'The property which every man has in his own labour,...the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable' (1976: 136). The writers of the second half of the nineteenth...

...in the Early Industrial Age (New York: Random House, 1985), 55-56, quotes Adam Smith, "The patrimony which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity...

...Wealth of Nations so famous and eloquent that we should insist on reading them aloud to our visitor. 'The property which every man has in his own labour,...the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity...

...have seen, the character type of the commutatively just 14 Consider Smith's pronouncement in HWthat "the property which every man has in his own labour,...the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable." To deprive a "poor man" from deploying his strength and ability...

...conscience in peace. The following quotation from Adam Smith reads like a paraphrase of the Lockian theory: The property which every man has in his own labour as it is the original foundation of all property so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength...