Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 66 of the late Brian Doherty’s marvelous 2007 book, Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement:

Modern libertarianism is a vision of a radical and just future – but one whose contours are inherent in the meaning of the American Revolution, arising from European traditions of natural law, natural rights, a relationship between man and the state that ought to be contractual and reciprocal; and a vision of man that is rooted in the best of the Western Christian tradition. That vision sees the individual soul as so worth saving that God-made-man would sacrifice himself to do so. And that individual soul is responsible for the choices that can guarantee its own salvation.