Quote#Politics & Power
But politics demands, in the interests of each separate nation,…
Quote byFriedrich List · 1789–1846
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The National System of Political Economy (1841), Introduction, translated and reproduced in Hirst (1909), p. 291.
English (original)
But politics demands, in the interests of each separate nation, guarantees for its independence and continued existence, special regulations to help its progress in culture, prosperity, and power, to build its society into a perfectly complete and harmoniously developed body politic, self-contained and independent.
— Friedrich List
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