Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 37 of Benjamin Rogge’s October 4th, 1968, address “Speech in Honor of Leonard Read’s Seventieth Birthday” as this address is reprinted in A Maverick’s Defense of Freedom, the 2010 collection of Rogge’s essays edited by Dwight Lee:

For most of us, it is only with age, if ever, that we acquire the wisdom to be content to live under always imperfect rules that still permit us imperfect men to make our own imperfect decisions, with consequences for each man and for all men that no one can fully predict and that will always be something less than the New Jerusalem.