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“Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
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- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 281d796e8bce211bd01087e0e2bfc9c587f6a79502b285bac4b9f586949fc0c5
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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