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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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Topics: Check General His Individual Injure Interest May Members Nation Own Part Promoting Public Public Interest Welfare

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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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Topics: Alone Commit Entirely Everything Fall Industry Itself Left Letting Nation Ruin Soon Suicide Would

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It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.

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Topics: Alone Bad Better Everything Interfering Less May Only Policy Power Private Promoted Regulate Social Themselves Things Those Where Which

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The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

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Topics: Forces He His How Improvement Invention Learns Machines Means More Nature Own Perfecting Person Produce Purposes Sciences Use Will

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But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

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Topics: Derive General Individuals Must Power Regulate Restrict Social Strength Supply Welfare

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Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

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Topics: Acts Around Common Everywhere Individuals Look Principle Promoted Restricted See Welfare You

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Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

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Topics: Between Develop Did Fullest Manufacturing National Never Now Only Other Power Reciprocal Recognize Relationship System Transportation Which Without

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The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.

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Topics: Agriculture Concentration Effect Growth Increases Industry More Powers Productive Proportion Reciprocal Than Which

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The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.

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Topics: Background Children Crippled Fatherland Germany Like Love More Mothers Plans Relationship Return Them

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Economist

Born: August 6th, 1789

Died: November 30th, 1846

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