Quotation of the Day…
by Don Boudreaux
on August 16, 2018
… is from page 267 of the 1992 Liberty Fund edition of John Taylor‘s 1822 tract, Tyranny Unmasked:
The commissions to overturn political idolatry thus entrusted to the United States, like that to overturn religious idolatry entrusted to the Jews, requires only that portion of sagacity, sufficient to discover a fact, of universal notoriety, incapable of contradiction, and acknowledged by every honest man, learned or unlearned. It is, that no species of property-transferring policy, past or existing, foreign or domestick, ever did or ever can enrich the labouring classes of any society whatever; but that it universally impoverishes them.
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