Quote#Freedom
The history of civil liberty is made up of campaigns against abuses…
Quote byWilliam Graham Sumner · 1840–1910
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Protectionism: the -ism which teaches that waste makes wealth, 1888, paragraph 155 ..
English (original)
The history of civil liberty is made up of campaigns against abuses of taxation. Protectionism is the great modern abuse of taxation; the abuse of taxation which is adapted to a republican form of government. Protectionism is now corrupting our political institutions just as slavery used to do.
— William Graham Sumner
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