Defending Liberty: Essays in Honor of David Gordon
From the Introduction...
The American notion [is] that the end of government is liberty, not happiness, or prosperity, or power, or the preservation of an historic inheritance, or the adaptation of national law to national character, or the progress of enlightenment and the promotion of virtue; [and] that the private individual should not feel the pressure of public authority, and should direct his life by the influences that are within him, not around him. . . .
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. Читать дальше...
