“… Following these examples every responsible government should strive to remove those obstacles that hinder the progress of civilisation and should stimulate the growth of those economic forces that a nation carries in its bosom.”

—  Friedrich List

Source: The Natural System of Political Economy (1837), pp. 42–43

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