Quotation of the Day…

(Don Boudreaux)

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… is from page 90 of Thomas Sowell’s 1993 collection, Is Reality Optional?:

Those who are constantly demanding “safety” may sound more reasonable, but often what they are asking for cannot be delivered either. Some things can be made safer at a reasonable cost but others cannot. And some things cannot be made safer at any cost, because greater safety in one way creates more dangers in other ways.