| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| | Note 1. This phrase, Laissez faire, laissez passer! is attributed to Gournay, Minister of Commerce at Paris, 1751; also to Quesnay, the writer on political economy. It is quoted by Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations. [back] |
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