Quote from Friedrich August von Hayek 

"The [classical] liberal, of course,
does not deny that there are some superior people --
he is not an egalitarian --
but he denies that anyone has authority
to decide who these superior people are."

Quote by:
Friedrich August von Hayek
(1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974
Source:
"Why I Am Not a Conservative," postcript to The Constitution of Liberty [1960] (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1972), p. 402
 
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