At a time when most movements that are thought to be progressive advocate further encroachments on individual liberty, those who cherish freedom are likely to expend their energies in opposition. In this they find themselves much of the time on the same side as those who habitually resist change.
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It frames resistance to change as inherently linked to liberty.
If one objects to the use of coercion in order to bring about a more even or more just distribution, this does not mean that one does not regard these as desir…
Conservatism proper is a legitimate, probably necessary, and certainly widespread attitude of opposition to drastic change. It has, since the French Revolution…
Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions..…
Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.
I see now more clearly than ever before that even our greatest troubles spring from something that is as admirable and sound as it is dangerous - from our impa…
Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world - and never will.