"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."

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Source : "The Liberal Tradition in European Thought". Book by David Sidorsky, p. 73, 1971.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

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