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To promote the little interest of one little order of men in one country, it hurts the interest of all other orders of men in that country, and of all men in all other countries.


Adam Smith, The Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776), on colonialism, his own country’s participation in which Smith judged quite negatively: “Great Britain derives nothing but loss from the dominion which she assumes over her colonies.”

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