The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Ger…

- Friedrich List

Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.

- Friedrich List

It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no …

- Friedrich List

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

- Friedrich List

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from s…

- Friedrich List

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement …

- Friedrich List

The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical tha…

- Friedrich List

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the…

- Friedrich List

An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a…

- Friedrich List