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Wilhelm von Humboldt

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don’t, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.

Wilhelm von Humboldt, as quoted in David Sidorsky, The Liberal Tradition in European Thought (1971), p. 73.

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