"Laissez faire" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... je sais bien que vous l'aimez: c'est a cause de cela que je ne vous ecoute pas. Etes-vous en etat de juger de rien? Allons, allons, vous vous moquez. Laissez faire un homme de sang-froid. Partez, d'autant plus que voici Marton qui vient a propos, et que je vais tacher d'amuser,[131] en ...
— A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux • Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
... write some other letters. Green,(20) his surgeon, was there, and dressed his breast; that is, put on a plaster, which is still requisite: and I took an opportunity to speak to him of the Queen; but he cut me short with this saying, "Laissez faire a Don Antoine," which is a French proverb, expressing, "Leave that to me." I find he is against her taking much physic; and I doubt he cannot persuade her to take Dr. Radcliffe. However, she is very well now, and all the ...
— The Journal to Stella • Jonathan Swift
... recognized that corporations and combinations had become indispensable in the business world, that it was folly to try to prohibit them, but that it was also folly to leave them without thoroughgoing control. These men realized that the doctrines of the old laissez faire economists, of the believers in unlimited competition, unlimited individualism, were in the actual state of affairs false and mischievous. They realized that the Government must now interfere to protect labor, to subordinate ...
— Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt
... may be said that the farmers' organizations and parties stood for increased governmental activity; they scorned the economic and political doctrine of laissez faire; they believed that the people's governments could and should be used in many ways for promoting the welfare of the people, for assuring social justice, and for restoring or preserving economic as well as political equality. They ...
— The Agrarian Crusade - A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics • Solon J. Buck
... society implicit in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations reflects at once the temper of the English people and of the age in which he lived.[175] The eighteenth century was the age of individualism, laissez faire and freedom. Everything was in process of emancipation ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park |
