Mises Daily
Author:
Sir Ernest Benn
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[This essay appears in Essays on Liberty, (volume 1, 1952). It is condensed from a 1950 address.] I understand that in the United States there are still those who think that the machinery of government can be used as a substitute for personal responsibility on the part of the governed. This idea, as we know only too well in Britain, is the open