Samuel Smiles warned that taking care of the pennies should not come before taking care of living.

Adam Smith contrasted the Government’s handling of the national economy with the way most families handled theirs.

Thorold Rogers looks at how Governments have tried to make trade ‘fair’, and concludes that they would have been better ensuring it was free.

Richard Cobden told an Edinburgh peace conference that the biggest threat to the United Kingdom’s security was her own foreign policy.

John Wesley urged the medical profession (and his fellow clergy) to remember that drugs are not the answer to every sickness.

Sir Philip Francis told the House of Commons that it must not let ministers manufacture crises as an excuse for grabbing more power.