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Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can…

Quote byThomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay · 1800–1859

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: 'On Mitford's History of Greece', Knight's Quarterly Magazine (November 1824), p. 161.

English (original)

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

— Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

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