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Freeholds and Freedom: The Importance of Private Property in Promoting and Securing Liberty
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 |
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The connection between political liberty and the individual ownership of property is one of the great certitudes of human society. It is carved in granite, at least in the English language, where the words ‘freedom’ and ‘freehold’ come from the same root and have impinged on and interrelated with each other through many centuries, from the most distant origins of Anglo-Saxon communities in the Dark Ages.This is the transcript of the Seventeenth Annual IEA Hayek Memorial Lecture made in London by Paul Johnson. |
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