Quotation of the Day…
Posted By Don Boudreaux On May 8, 2012 @ 8:36 am In Hayek,Hubris and humility | Comments Disabled
… is from page 406 – in the Postscript entitled “Why I Am Not a Conservative” – of Hayek’s 1960 The Constitution of Liberty [1]:
Only at first does it seem paradoxical that the anti-internationalism of the conservative is so frequently associated with imperialism. But the more a person dislikes the strange and thinks his own ways superior, the more he tends to regard it as his mission to “civilize” others – not by the voluntary and unhampered intercourse which the liberal favors, but by bringing them the blessings of efficient government.
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