Bonus Quotation of the Day…

by Don Boudreaux on June 17, 2020

in Philosophy of Freedom, Virginia Political Economy

… is from page 301 of the 1999 Liberty Fund edition of James M. Buchanan’s and Gordon Tullock’s seminal 1962 book, The Calculus of Consent:

The precept “Love thy neighbor, but also let him alone when he desires to be let alone” may, in one sense, be said to be the overriding ethical principle for Western liberal society.

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