Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare. — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of… — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical… — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the… — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is… — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can… — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from… — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide. — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled… — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare. — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
