Note 68 — Chapter I · : THE PHYSIOCRATS

“Let entire freedom of commerce be maintained, for the surest, the exactest, the most profitable regulator both of home and of foreign trade for the nation as well as for the State is perfect freedom of competition.” (Quesnay’s Maximes, xxv.) “We must tell them that free trade is in accordance with the order and with the demands of justice, and everything that conforms to the order bears its own reward.” (Le Trosne, p. 586.)