There is a story that the famous French mercantilist minister, Colbert, once asked a group of businessmen what he could do for them. Several French authors in the earlier part of the 18th century, including the Marquis d'Argenson, used the slogan laissez faire . My thanks to Laissez Faire Books of California for the preceding, wonderfully detailed quote about this old term. It's easy to find writings from that time period which use the term in passing, most often as an adjective, and not as a defining characteristic of their various theses or positions except in the most general possible way. However, if you ignore and skip over those portions that talk about socialist ideas, there are some really eloquent arguments for individual rights, liberties, and responsibilities in these writings.
Plagiarism is, some say, the sincerest form of flattery.
Almost none of it is worthy of a response, however. Org website is a page of excellent history which I recommend.