The more complicated society becomes, the more apparent become the benefits of liberty

From The Science of Liberty by Timothy Ferris.  Page 27.

Although thinkers long assumed otherwise, freedom is efficient. Perhaps it was the machine age, with its picture of society as resembling a factory run by a boss from a windowed aerie high above it all, that misled so many on this point, but by now it has become clear that the world is far too complex to be run by individuals or by committees of experts. No leader can assimilate enough information to accurately price tomatoes, much less chart the course of scientific or social advance. So the liberal ideal of peoples being free to decide matters for themselves turns out to have practical value—and the more complicated society becomes, the more apparent become the benefits of liberty.