Friedrich List

“Any nation which by means of protective duties and restrictions on navigation has raised her manufacturing power... can do nothing wiser than to throw away these ladders of her greatness, to preach to other nations the benefits of free trade.”

“The sea is the high road of the world.”

“The civilisation, political education, and power of nations, depend chiefly on their commercial and industrial systems.”

“Capital is the child of the spirit.”

“The prosperity of a nation is not... greater in the proportion in which it has amassed more wealth... but in the proportion in which it has more developed its powers of production.”

“Between each individual and humanity stands the nation.”

“The history of nations teaches us that the nations have become powerful and wealthy in proportion as they have perfected their manufacturing industry.”

“The power of producing is therefore infinitely more important than wealth itself.”

“Manufacturing establishments and factories are the mothers and children of municipal liberty, of intelligence, of the arts and sciences, of internal and external commerce... of civilization and political power.”

“To call cosmopolitanism a mania, is not paying it too high a compliment.”