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" Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the people by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties ; by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward,... "
Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Page 115
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 744 pages
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Nomination of George S. Dunlop: Hearing Before the Committee on Agriculture ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry - 1986 - 32 pages
...Macaulay said this about government. He said: Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the Nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate...natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending prosperity, and by observing strict economy in every department of the State, let the government do...
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The Fortunes of Liberalism: Essays on Austrian Economics and the Ideal of ...

F. A. Hayek - 1992 - 291 pages
...contains the following oft-quoted passage: "Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate...maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the Wieser and still more in that of Philippovich this liberalism already included a good deal of argument...
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Riches and Poverty: An Intellectual History of Political Economy in Britain ...

Donald Winch - 1996 - 452 pages
...carried forward in civilisation ... Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by stricdy confining themselves to their own legitimate duties,...every department of the state. Let the Government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest. 9 Malthus's early anxieties about the growth of manufacturing...
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Victorian Prose: An Anthology

Rosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher - 1999 - 502 pages
...prudence and energy of the people, that England has hitherto been carried forward in civilisation; and it is to the same prudence and the same energy...every department of the state. Let the Government do this — the People will assuredly do the rest. io . Pseudonym of Whig writer whose letters to the...
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Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the Creation of ...

Kenneth R. Hoover - 2003 - 362 pages
...English historian and literary philosopher: Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate...every department of the state. Let the Government do this: The people will assuredly do the rest.107 It is interesting that the link between Austrian...
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Shaping the Future: Nietzsche's New Regime of the Soul and Its Ascetic Practices

Horst Hutter - 2006 - 1978 pages
...we now look with comfort and good hope. Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate...every department of the state. Let the government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest.24 When Macaulay penned these lines in 1830, most British...
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Angelsaksen versus Rijnlanders: zoektocht naar overeenkomsten en verschillen ...

Jaap Jan Brouwer, Piet Moerman - 2005 - 136 pages
...historicus Thomas Macaulay schreef in 1830: "Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate...intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their naturalpunishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price oflaw, and...
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Liberty Liberalism A Protest Against Th

Bruce Smith - 2006 - 461 pages
...look forward with comfort and good hope. Our ruiers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate...every department of the state. Let the government do this and the people will assuredly do the rat! This passage contains, in a summarized form, (he...
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Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage

Nicholas Wapshott - 2007 - 372 pages
...politician and poet Lord Macaulay: " 'Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the people by confining themselves to their own legitimate duties,...reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by diminishing the price of law, by maintaining peace, by defending property and by observing strict economy...
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House of Commons Debates, Official Report, Volume 2

Canada. Parliament. House of Commons - 1924 - 1008 pages
...Liberal party that I know of. He said : Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate...every department of the state. Let the government do this; the people will assuredly do the rest. If my hon. friend the leader of the opposition and...
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