Quotation of the Day…
Posted By Don Boudreaux On December 9, 2012 @ 10:41 am In Civil Society | Comments Disabled
… is from page 268 of the original edition of Henry Hazlitt’s remarkably fine – yet, sadly, largely overlooked – 1964 volume, The Foundations of Morality [1]:
Liberty is the essential basis, the sine qua non, of morality. Morality can exist only in a free society; it can exist to the extent that freedom exists. Only to the extent that men have the power of choice can they be said to choose the good.
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