What he was trying to do was less to emphasize that men care above all things for the pursuit of wealth than that no institutional modifications are able to destroy the power of that motive to labor.
Laski argues that Smith's focus was not solely on wealth but on the enduring power of labor's motivations despite institutional changes.
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From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.
The main thing was to be rid of the Divine Right of kings.
I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.
There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.
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