Who coined the phrase "You can either get freedom to or freedom from"?

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) April 6th, 2023

The first time I heard it written was George Orwell or Margaret Atwood.

Have you heard this phrase before?

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Milton Friedman.

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“There are two kinds of freedom. Freedom from (negative freedom) and freedom to (positive freedom). The splitting of freedom into this binary framework can be traced at least back to Kant, was articulated by Erich Fromm in his 1941 work, Escape from Freedom, made famous by Isaiah Berlin’s 1958 essay, “Two Concepts of Liberty,” and explored more modernly by Charles Taylor.”

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