The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.
Friedrich ListAbout author
- Author's profession: Economist
- Nationality: deutsch
- Born: August 6, 1789
- Died: November 30, 1846
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