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Quotation of the Day…

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… is from the newly released collection of Bastiat [2]‘s letters, The Man and the Statesman: The Correspondence and Articles on Politics [3]; this quotation – from a letter that Bastiat wrote to Richard Cobden [4] – is highlighted in James Grants’s delightful review of this collection in today’s Wall Street Journal [5]:

I want not so much free trade as the spirit of free trade for my country.  Free trade means a little more wealth; the spirit of free trade is a reform of the mind itself, that is to say, the source of all reforms.

(HT Fred Dent)

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