"Laissez faire, telle devrait être la devise de toute puissance publique, depuis que le monde est civilisé ... Détestable principe que celui de ne vouloir grandir que par l'abaissement de nos voisins! Il n'y a que la méchanceté et la malignité du coeur de satisfaites dans ce principe, et l’intérêt y est opposé. Laissez faire, morbleu! Laissez faire!!"
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Alternative translation: Laissez faire ought to be the motto of every public authority — Quoted in: Mark Skousen. The Making of Modern Economics, (2009), p. 48
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