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“10,000 Regulations…Destroy All Respect for the Law”

“10,000 Regulations…Destroy All Respect for the Law”

Today I saw on Facebook a quote attrib­uted to Win­ston Churchill. “If you have ten thou­sand reg­u­la­tions you destroy all respect for the law.”I can find no doc­u­men­ta­tion to sup­port his say­ing or writ­ing these words. Can you help me to ver­i­fy it is an accu­rate quote or a mis­at­tri­bu­tion? —Jen­ny via email

Jen­ny, Facebook and Twit­ter must be the world’s lead­ing sources of false Churchill quotes, so thanks for ques­tion­ing this one—which is, for a change, right (although his word was “make,” not “have”)….

From Churchill By Him­self page 17:

Free Mar­ket

“If you destroy a free mar­ket you cre­ate a black market.”…

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