Today we pause to note the 20th anniversary of the death of F. A. Hayek, perhaps the most important social thinker of the 20th century and a man whose ideas still remain ahead of their time and distorted and misunderstood by the supposed intellectual elite.  There are so many great Hayek quotes one could deploy on this occasion, but I think I will go with this one from “Why I’m Not a Conservative”:

“[Classical liberalism] has never been a backward-looking doctrine.  There has never been a time when liberal ideals were fully realized and when liberalism did not look forward to further improvement of institutions.  Liberalism is not averse to evolution and change;  and where spontaneous change has been smothered by government control, it wants a great deal of change of policy.  So far as much of current governmental action is concerned, there is in the present world very little reason for the liberal to wish to preserve things as they are.”