able to call ourselves liberals because the Fabian welfarists stole that term a couple of generations ago. So we have been using the term “libertarian” to describe that important aspect of conservative thought which places individual liberty high in the order of political goods. But now one notices, creeping in the back door, certain modern (i.e. socialist) Liberals beginning to call themselves “libertarians.” If, now, we start calling ourselves eleutherophiles, you’ll know why, of course.
WM. F. BUCKLEY JR.
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