Thought for the day
Contributed by: filbert Friday, November 06 2009 @ 12:37 PM CST
From The Road To Serfdom, by F. A. Hayek, 1944, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, 1994, The University of Chicago Press.
. . . the most important change which extensive government control produces is a psychological change, an alteration of the character of the people. . . even a strong tradition of political liberty is no safeguard if the danger is precisely that new institutions and policies will gradually undermine and destroy that spirit.
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