Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people at large as much as for their future leaders.
Friedrich August von Hayek'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
Friedrich August von HayekWhen it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.
Friedrich August von HayekThe curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
Friedrich August von Hayek