"Que faut-il faire pour vous aider? Laissez-nous faire!"
— Laissez-faire

January 1, 1970

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Liberalism
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Conversation between French Finance Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert and a merchant named Legendre (1680), quoted in, among others, The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) by John Maynard Keynes