The idea that individuals are made capable by the power of reason and cooperation is regarded a dangerous and fallacious bourgeois prejudice, to be eradicated by state censors. They must jealously guard all areas of thought against the intrusion of private initiative, especially in the presses and in the schools. They know, by experience, that there is no telling when one side of a free controversy will discover the idea of liberty. If government controls are believed necessary to find answers to problems, then the individual's capacity of reason, persuasion, and competition has been judged to be incompetent. Then, the government must become the caretaker to all.
Freedom is indivisible.
Reprinted with permission from The Freeman, a publication of the Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., December 1983, Vol.