Quotation of the Day…
by Don Boudreaux
on September 1, 2019
… is from page 57 of the original edition of IHS-founder F.A. “Baldy” Harper’s 1949 tract, Liberty: A Path to Its Recovery:
Anyone who will defend his liberty must guard against the argument that access to the ballot, “by which people get whatever they want,” is liberty. It would be as logical to assert that liberty in the choice of a wife is assured to a person if he will put it to a vote of the community and accept their plurality decision, or that liberty in religion is assured if the state enforces participation in the one religion that receives the most votes in the nation.
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