“Andrew Yarranton, Gentlemen was the founder of English political economy, the first man in England who saw and said that peace was better than war, that trade was better than plunder, that honest industry was better than martial greatness, and that the best occupation of a government was to secure prosperity at home, and let other nations alone.”

—  Andrew Yarranton

Patrick Edward Dove, Elements of Political Science. Edinburgh, 1854. p. 402

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