Quotation of the Day…
by Don Boudreaux
on July 22, 2026
… is from chapter 1 of William Graham Sumner’s great 1885 book, Protectionism: the -ism Which Teaches that Waste Makes Wealth;
Protectionism bars the science of political economy with a dogma, and the only process of the art of statesmanship to which it leads is eternal trial and failure—the process of the alchemist and of the inventor of perpetual motion.
