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Freedom Friday: Gradual Encroachments
2010·02·19 ·
Coercing Virtue · James Madison · Politics · Robert Bork
Our Fridays are dedicated to the defense and promotion of liberty.
Having completed Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom, but wanting to continue the theme and retain the clever alliteration, our Friday posts are now titled Freedom Friday. Today’s quote is from one of the authors of our liberty, via Robert Bork.
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation.
—James Madison, quoted in Robert Bork, Coercing Virtue (American Enterprise Institute, 2003), 1.
