"[The Wealth of Nations gave a] scientific backbone to liberal sentiment."
— Adam Smith

January 1, 1970

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Lord Acton, private notes, quoted in G. E. Fasnacht, Acton's Political Philosophy: An Analysis (1952), p. 145