By way of Skeptical Eye, article from von Mises about welfare before the welfare state.
Which led me to Hayek's 'The decline of socialism and the rise of the welfare state.'
To me, socialism (or free cooperation) can be the natural state of man, if not coerced. I just don't believe I know what's good and right for the next guy; my neighbour. To me, that's supreme arrogance.
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. Brandeis.
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