In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are …

John Stuart Mill
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In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves. ✨ John Stuart Mill (1866). Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy, p.571
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