Friedrich List quotes
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“Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists 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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“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.”
-- Friedrich ListSource : Friedrich List, William Notz (1931). “Grundlinien einer politischen Ökonomie und andere Beiträge der amerikanischen Zeit: 1825-1832”
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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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“Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.”
-- Friedrich ListSource : Friedrich List, Erwin von Beckerath, Karl Goeser, Friedrich Lenz, Edgar Salin “Schriften, reden, briefe ...”
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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.”
-- Friedrich ListSource : Friedrich List, Erwin von Beckerath, Karl Goeser, Friedrich Lenz, Edgar Salin (1931). “Schriften, Reden, Briefe: Grundlinien einer politischen Ökonomie”
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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.”
-- Friedrich ListSource : Friedrich List, Erwin von Beckerath, Karl Goeser, Friedrich Lenz, Edgar Salin (1931). “Schriften, Reden, Briefe: Grundlinien einer politischen Ökonomie”
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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.”
-- Friedrich ListSource : Friedrich List, Erwin von Beckerath, Karl Goeser, Friedrich Lenz, Edgar Salin (1931). “Schriften, Reden, Briefe: Grundlinien einer politischen Ökonomie”
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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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“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.”
-- Friedrich List
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“Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back”
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“Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.”
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“Over the long term, absent of other barriers, economics always win.”
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Source : "A Clinton Report Card, So Far" by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., www.nytimes.com. April 11, 1993.
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“I take the subway to work. I love mass transportation.”
Source : "Five Minutes with Shepard Smith". FOX News Interview, www.foxnews.com. February 7, 2005.
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Source : Source: www.vanityfair.com
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