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… is from page 4 of the 1998 Liberty Fund edition of the late Anthony de Jasay’s great 1985 book, The State [2]:
People who have been made to rely on the state never learn the art of self-reliance nor acquire the habits of civic action.
DBx: In other words, dependence on the state makes people irresponsible and uncivilized – in a word, childish.