ABSTRACT
The person who wishes not to be troubled by politics and to be left alone finds himself an unwitting ally of those to whom politics is a troublesome obstacle to their well-meant intentions to leave nothing alone … the establishing of political order is not just any order at all; it marks the birth, or the recognition, of freedom. For politics represents at least some tolerance of differing truths, some recognition that government is possible, indeed best conducted, amid the open canvassing of rival interests. Politics are the public actions of free men. Freedom is the privacy of men from public action.
