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When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.

Friedrich August von Hayek

The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK

Law Liberty Struggle
Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people
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Liberty Names People
And who will deny that a world in which the wealthy are powerful is still a better world than one in which only the already powerful can acquire wealth?
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Powerful Wealth World
Capitalism created the possibility of employment.
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Capitalism Employment Possibility
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
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Differences Moral Today
By the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached.
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Advanced Majority Point Views
Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.
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Conservatism Conserves Good
Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.
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Danger Doubt Eye
It is no accident that on the whole there was more beauty and decency to be found in the life of the small peoples, and that among the large ones there was more happiness and content in proportion as they had avoided the deadly blight of centralization.
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Blight Centralization Proportion
Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.
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Advantage Freedom Principles
To create conditions in which competition will be as effective as possible, to prevent fraud and deception, to break up monopolies- these tasks provide a wide and unquestioned field for state activity.
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Competition Deception Tasks
That there is little hope of international order or lasting peace so long as every country is free to employ whatever measures it thinks desirable in its own immediate interest, however damaging they may be to others, needs little emphasis now.
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Country Desirable Measure Order Thinking
When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.
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Democracy Politics Power
Liberty”’.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society
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Coercion Liberty Men
In no other field has the world yet paid so dearly for the abandonment of nineteenth-century liberalism as in the field where the retreat began: in international relations. Yet only a small part of the lesson which experience ought to have taught us has been learned.
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Lessons Taught Us World
Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies.
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Agency Assembly Purpose