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title: "3 Anders Chydenius Quotes"
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# Anders Chydenius

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Anders Chydenius was a Swedish-Finnish Lutheran priest, member of the Swedish Riksdag, and one of the most important champions of democratic development in 18th-century Sweden, known as the leading classical liberal of Nordic history. He championed free trade, freedom of the press, and the rights of

##  Quotes by Anders Chydenius

> [The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anders-chydenius/the-more-opportunities-there-are-in-a-society-for-some-persons-to/)

Anders Chydenius

[Diligence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/diligence/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8cd/anders-chydenius-86142_diligence_the-more-opportunities-there-are-in-a-so_687055.jpg)

> [...Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anders-chydenius/fatherland-without-freedom-and-merit-is-a-large-word-with-little/)

Anders Chydenius

[Fatherland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fatherland/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5d/anders-chydenius-86142_fatherland_fatherland-without-freedom-and-merit-is_1131397.jpg)

> [The exercise of one coercion always makes another inevitable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anders-chydenius/the-exercise-of-one-coercion-always-makes-another-inevitable/)

Anders Chydenius

[Coercion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/coercion/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c82/anders-chydenius-86142_coercion_the-exercise-of-one-coercion-always-make_3168532.jpg)

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