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“Industrial progress is due to individuals, not to governments. No state discovered gravitation, and, if humanity had waited for governments to apply steam and electricity to our daily needs, we should have neither railways, telephones, nor telegraphs.”


Yves Guyot Where and Why Public Ownership Has Failed, p. 292

Guyot (September 6, 1843 — February 22, 1928), a French journalist, politician and economist, was an uncompromising free-trader.

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