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Quotes from Travels in the North of Germany — Thomas Hodgskin

1787–1869 England

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The evils of society cannot be remedied by acts of parliament.

Travels in the North of Germany (1820)

The evil of confinement is not to be remedied by outrage, but it is so great an evil, that it looks like tameness of apathy to be perfectly resigned to it.

Travels in the North of Germany (1820)

The simple means of making the race frugal is to supply the wants of no man and to leave every man the produce of his own labour.

Travels in the North of Germany (1820)

[T]he real business of men, what promotes their prosperity, is always better done by themselves than by any few separate and distinct individuals, acting as a government in the name of the whole.

Travels in the North of Germany (1820)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Hodgskin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.