AJ Dual said,
Even RAH was pretty heavy on "Big.gov is the hero" in the first half of his career. You see the first hints of his change in the '59 Starship Troopers, where the whole book was essentially a thought-experiment on "How does one make Big.gov responsible, good, lean-n-mean, and ethical?". Then in the 60's and 70's I think he figured out it's probably damn near well impossible for Big.gov to be "good", just that it looks that way it's standing next to the Nazis and Stalin, and went pretty full-bore Libertarian.
Another confirmation of the saying,
"If a man is not a socialist by the time he's 20, he has no heart. And if he's not a conservative by the time he's 40, he has no brain."
Terry
REF (The quote is subject to variations, and the source is debatable):
http://katecarruthers.com/2005/02/alleged-quote-by-churchill-on-being-a-socialist-or-conservative/
