Note 94 — Chapter I · : THE PHYSIOCRATS

“The Government ought to be less concerned with the task of saving than with the duty of spending upon those operations that are necessary for the prosperity of the realm. This heavy expenditure will cease when the country has become wealthy.” (Quesnay, Maximes, xxvi.)

“It is a narrow and churlish English idea which decrees that an annual sum should be annually voted to the Government, and that Parliament should reserve to itself the right of refusing this tax. Such a procedure is a travesty of democracy.” (Dupont, in a letter to J. B. Say.)