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Frédéric Bastiat

Le plus pressé, ce n’est pas que l’État enseigne, mais qu’il laisse enseigner. Tous les monopoles sont détestables, mais le pire de tous, c’est le monopole de l’enseignement.

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

Frédéric Bastiat, in debate with Pierre-​Joseph Proudhon (1849 – 1850).

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