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… is the closing two sentences (found on page 383) of Thomas Sowell’s 1980 magnum opus Knowledge and Decisions [2]; for many years this quotation adorned my office door:
Freedom is not simply the right of intellectuals to circulate their merchandise. It is, above all, the right of ordinary people to find elbow room for themselves and a refuge from the rampaging presumptions of their “betters.”