Diogenes On The Proper Role of Government

February 6th, 2009 | Categories: Uncategorized

When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: “Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.” It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government.

(Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson, 1996 (first published in 1946), Laissez Faire Books, p195)

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