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… is from page 94 of my late Nobel-laureate colleague James M. Buchanan [2]‘s 2005 book, Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative: The Normative Vision of Classical Liberalism [3]:
To be free to choose implies acceptance of the results of choices made, which means, in turn, that there should be no assignment of blame to others, including the state, if these choices turn out to have been wrong.