The statement is excellent, but in Sherman's mouth it is sheer hypocrisy, as Sherman utilized war against a civilian population, through massive destruction of housing and the use of hunger as a weapon by means of destruction of growing crops in order to devastate a new nation called the Confederate States of America. That new nation should never have existed, as its main purpose was to protect the hideous institution of slavery (which had enriched Boston shipping barons), but the Declaration of Independence clearly states the rights of all persons to reject existing government and to create new government suitable to their liking (not to the liking of the head of state of the old nation). Much later on, it was the Mafia that put Sherman's approach into the rule that said "If you quit we will kill you." The war created by Mr. Lincoln (Sherman's commander in chief) war killed 500,000 men, not counting the families that starved or died from other war related causes. There must have been some other way to detoxify America from addiction to slavery.

A man with such a loud voice who cannot see the vast difference between Soviet planning and British planning is a very dangerous man indeed. His utterances should be regarded as the devil's own propaganda.

In the way that von Hayek intended it, it is totally false. I.e., public regulation of the market place, to prevent national economic disintegration and protect vulnerable victims of economic crime, strengthens, rather than usurping, liberty. If we apply this sentence of von Hayek to government invasion of the private houses, papers, and letters (including emails and phone calls), it is totally true, but Ben Franklin said it in an earlier, simpler, and more powerful way.