Quotation of the Day…

by Don Boudreaux on July 8, 2016

in War

… is from page xix of Felix Morley‘s Introduction to the 1981 Liberty Fund edition of his 1959 book, Freedom and Federalism:

So the effort to differentiate politically, between proponents of Warfare and of Welfare, is unsatisfactory, not less so because of the curious attempt to make the former a “Conservative” and the latter a “Liberal” position.  Opposition to what George Washington called “overgrown military establishments” is in fact the traditional American attitude.

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