… is from page 7 of Philip K. Howard’s 2024 book, Everyday Freedom (original emphasis):
Liberty to pursue our own goals is how most people probably conceive of freedom. But that’s only one aspect of freedom. People also need freedom in how we do things.
DBx: Yes. Yet socialists and industrial-policyists implicitly disagree. Most such interventionists will sincerely proclaim a wish to expand the life’s-choices open to ordinary men and women. But these interventionists also insist that the government must superintend – must proscribe or prescribe – the means that individuals use to pursue their chosen ends. These interventionists not only are arrogant in supposing that they know what are the best means that individuals should use, they are also blind to the reality that constraints on means are also constraints on the pursuit of ends.
