Parkinson Looks at Retirement: II

slave no matter how many subsidies and services officious overlords may impose upon him.

Liberty was the touchstone by which he tested the quality of social life: the relations between man and man, man and society, man and the state. He rejected the Welfare State because he knew that the ministrations of its swarming bureaucracy interfere with the individual’s pursuit of happiness—”Can any individual be happy when he is continually conscious of not being his own man?” And also because he knew that the arrogation to itself of the power to regulate the conduct of the citizen interferes with the legitimate functions of the state, which are two: “first freedom; second justice.” In other words, the state’s business is to let people alone, and to coerce them only in the measure necessary to ensure their letting one another alone.

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slave no matter how many subsidies and services officious overlords may impose upon him.

Liberty was the touchstone by which he tested the quality of social life: the relations between man and man, man and society, man and the state. He rejected the Welfare State because he knew that the ministrations of its swarming bureaucracy interfere with the individual’s pursuit of happiness—”Can any individual be happy when he is continually conscious of not being his own man?” And also because he knew that the arrogation to itself of the power to regulate the conduct of the citizen interferes with the legitimate functions of the state, which are two: “first freedom; second justice.” In other words, the state’s business is to let people alone, and to coerce them only in the measure necessary to ensure their letting one another alone.