Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.
Friedrich August von HayekDemocracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means infallible or certain. Nor must we forget that there has often been much more cultural and spiritual freedom under an autocratic rule than under some democracies and it is at least conceivable that under the government of a very homogeneous and doctrinaire majority democratic government might be as oppressive as the worst dictatorship.
Friedrich August von HayekI have come to feel strongly that the greatest service I can still render to my fellow men would be that I could make the speakers and writers among them thoroughly ashamed ever again to employ the term "social justice.
Friedrich August von HayekThere is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.
Friedrich August von Hayek