Contributed by: filbert Saturday, November 07 2009 @ 12:38 PM CST
From The Road To Serfdom, by F. A. Hayek, 1944, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, 1994, The University of Chicago Press.
The supreme tragedy is still not seen that in Germany (prior to World War II) it was largely people of good will, men who were admired and held up as models in the democratic countries, who prepared the way for, if they did not actually create, the forces which now stand for everything they detest.
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