Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 524 of F.A. Hayek’s brilliant Postscript – “Why I Am Not A Conservative” – to the Definitive Edition (Ronald Hamowy, ed., 2011) of Hayek’s 1960 volume, The Constitution of Liberty:

I sometimes feel that the most conspicuous attribute of liberalism that distinguishes it as much from conservatism as from socialism is the view that moral beliefs concerning matters of conduct which do not directly interfere with the protected sphere of other persons do not justify coercion.

DBx: Hayek died on this date – March 23rd – in 1992, about six weeks shy of what would have been his 93rd birthday (May 8th).