Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security is so powerful a principle that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often incumbers its operations; though the effect of these obstructions is always more or less either to encroach upon its freedom, or to diminish its security. ” ~ Adam Smith (1723-1790) Scottish philosopher and economistSource: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations par. IV.5.82