Contributed by: filbert Monday, January 18 2010 @ 07:48 AM CST
From The Road To Serfdom, by F. A. Hayek, 1944, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, 1994, The University of Chicago Press.
The Rule of Law was consciously evolved only during the (classical) liberal age and is one of its greatest achievements, not only as a safeguard but as the legal embodiment of freedom. . . . “Man is free if he needs to obey no person but solely the laws.”
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