Contributed by: filbert Wednesday, December 16 2009 @ 07:55 AM CST
From The Road To Serfdom, by F. A. Hayek, 1944, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, 1994, The University of Chicago Press.
The difference between (the Rule of Law and arbitrary government power) is the same as that between laying down a Rule of the Road, as in the Highway Code, and ordering people where to go; or, better still, between providing signposts and commanding people which road to take.
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