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| text = In the particular circumstances of a given age or nation, there is scarcely anything really important to the general interest, which it may not be desirable, or even necessary, that the government should take upon itself, not because private individuals cannot effectually perform it, but because they will not.
| cite = [[John Stuart Mill]], "{{Link |Principles of Political Economy with Some of their Applications to Social Philosophy (7 ed.) Book V Chapter XI}}" pg. 606.
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