"Neocons do not feel that kind of (Hayekian) alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable. Because they tend to be more interested in history than economics or sociology, they know that the 19th- century idea, so neatly propounded by Herbert Spencer in his "The Man versus the State" was a historical eccentricity".
"(...) the steady decline in our democratic culture, sinking to new levels of vulgarity, does unite neocons with traditional conservatives - though not with those libertarian conservatives who are conservative in economics but unmindful of the culture".
(Irving Kristol, The Neoconservative Persuasion, The Weekly Standard, August, 2003).
