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