Life of Edward the Black Prince Quotes

“They had not learnt the great lesson, that trade prospers best when it is left alone by law-makers. They were inexperienced in making laws, and charmed with their new power, thought it would be easy to make the world go rightly by making laws about everything. Continually the laws when made were found to have quite different results to what the law-makers had expected, and had to be repealed the next year.”
― Louise Creighton, Life of Edward the Black Prince

“They had not learnt the great lesson, that trade prospers best when it is left alone by law-makers.”
― Louise Creighton, Life of Edward the Black Prince