Quote#Wisdom
It is no more than fair that England, now that she has attained the…
Quote byFriedrich List · 1789–1846
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The National System of Political Economy (1841), p. 56.
English (original)
It is no more than fair that England, now that she has attained the culminating point of her industrial growth and progress, should restore again to the nations of a portion of those productive forces which she originally derived from them.
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