لا شكّ أنّ إسراف الحكومة قد أبطأ التقدّم الطبيعي لإنجلترا نحو الثراء والازدهار، غير أنّه لم يستطع أن يوقفه.

“Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to stop it.”Adam Smith — An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations With a Life of the Author: Also a View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists, with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, from the French of M. Jariner (1843)