“I have no right to coerce someone else, because I cannot be sure that I'm right and he is wrong.”

"Say 'No' to Intolerance", Liberty magazine, vol. 4, no. 6, (July 1991) pp. 17-20.

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American economist, statistician, and writer 1912–2006

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