True Charity

"The original concept of charity as an expression of love, now appears to have been largely replaced by a concept of government-guaranteed security.... [But] how can charity — the love of a person for his fellow men — ever be connected with force and compulsion in any form? Are not these two concepts — the voluntary law of love of person for person, and the compulsory law of force of person against person — irreconcilable in all respects?"

— Rev. Russell J. Clinchy, “Charity: Biblical and Political” in Essays on Liberty [1952]

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