Showing posts with label modern liberalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label modern liberalism. Show all posts

Friday, October 07, 2011

Quote of the Day: Underlying Social Contract

From the ever eloquent George F. Will:

Society — hundreds of millions of people making billions of decisions daily — is a marvel of spontaneous order among individuals in voluntary cooperation. Government facilitates this cooperation with roads, schools, police, etc. — and by getting out of its way. This is a sensible, dynamic, prosperous society’s “underlying social contract.”

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