… is from page 525 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:
The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.
DBx: Indeed so.
Hayek was born on this date – May 8th – in 1899.


The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.
