Our legal system does not grant adults a right to liberty, because they already possess that right; it only revokes the — Thomas Szasz
Our legal system does not grant adults a right to liberty, because they already possess that right; it only revokes the — Thomas Szasz
Our legal system does not grant adults a right to liberty, because they already possess that right; it only revokes the — Thomas Szasz
Our legal system does not grant adults a right to liberty, because they already possess that right; it only revokes the — Thomas Szasz
Our legal system does not grant adults a right to liberty, because they already possess that right; it only revokes the — Thomas Szasz
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Our legal system does not grant adults a right to liberty, because they already possess that right; it only revokes the right to liberty (for certain offenses) or restores it (if the deprivation did not conform to due process).

— Thomas Szasz
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