(The following came while reading a Yard Sale of the Mind post)
How is it that a right exercised only on occasions determined by others, only under conditions dictated by others, and whose effectiveness is almost wholly determined by circumstances outside the individual’s control should be counted as the defining element of liberty?
Serpent's Den 
Rereading Chesterton’s Everlasting Man – that’s where all these ideas come from. I’d forgotten – must remember to quote and attribute in the future.
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