Friedrich Hayek Quotes
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
Hayek, Friedrich A. The Road to Serfdom. University of Chicago Press, 1944, p. 21.
He is supportive of the United Nations in the present configuration where it has no governmental power but is a forum for international diplomacy.
In early America and up to WWII, generally it was the conservatives like Fisher who were opposed to a strong military and many wanted no military at all except in times of war. It was President Dwight Eisenhower who turned the right wing of America into a pro military force.
De Tocqueville was generally concerned about what he saw as an inherent conflict between freedom and equality. Efforts to produce equality can lead in some cases to impingements on some freedoms or rights. Unlimited free rights can produce inequality and a de facto autocracy. Even in modern times America is struggling to find a proper balance.
Friedrich August von Hayek CH FBA, often referred to by his initials F. A. Hayek, was an Austrian-British economist and philosopher who is best known for his defence of classical liberalism. Hayek shared the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Gunnar Myrdal for his "pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and [...] penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena". His account of how changing prices communicate information that helps individuals co-ordinate their plans is widely regarded as an important achievement in economics, leading to his Nobel Prize.
