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Quote from William Graham Sumner,


"Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare."


By:

William Graham Sumner (more quotes by William Graham Sumner or books by/about William Graham Sumner)


(1840-1910) American classical liberal (now a branch of "libertarianism" in political philosophy), social scientist, professor of sociology, polymath

Source:

The Forgotten Man and Other Essays, 1919

ISBN-10:

1934788058

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