Hi Michael, >"But whenever property is secure, industry free, and the public burdens >moderate, the happiness or misery of the labouring classes depends >almost wholly on themselves. Government has there done for them all that >it should, and all in truth that it can do. It has given them security >and freedom. But the use or abuse of these inestimable advantages is >their own affair. They may be either provident or improvident, >industrious or idle; and being free to choose, they are alone >responsible for the consequences of their choice." My quick Google search reveals one source which claims that this comes from McCulloch's 1826_An Essay on the Circumstances which Determine the Rate of Wages and the Condition of the Labouring Classes_. I cannot locate the exact page reference, since I only have the revised edition. An update: The McCulloch quote is in pages 16-17 in _A Treatise on the Circumstances which Determine the Rate of Wages and the Condition of the Labouring Classes_, second edition, corrected and improved, 1854. Yours, Masazumi Wakatabe