Carolina QuotesBoth free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
Thomas Sowell Carolinian
Source
Will Property Rights Return?
- work
- Is Reality Optional? (1993)
- year
- 1993
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