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Without a theory the facts are silent.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.
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Civilization Opportunity Pride
Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.
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Done Mean Necessarily
To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.
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Economics Historical Mean
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.
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Ignorant Liberty Political Wisdom
This is not a dispute about whether planning is to be done or not. It is a dispute as to whether planning is to be done centrally, by one authority for the whole economic system, or is to be divided among many individuals.
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Done Economic Planning
I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
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Freedom Justice Mirages
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.
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Essentials Liberty Wish
In government, the scum rises to the top.
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Government Libertarian Scum
The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.
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Economics Individual Men
The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
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Law Liberty Struggle
It would clearly not be an improvement to build all houses exactly alike in order to create a perfect market for houses, and the same is true of most other fields where differences between the individual products prevent competition from ever being perfect.
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Differences House Order Perfect
It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.
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Causes Limits Real
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
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
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Design Liberty Men
Many who think themselves infinitely superior to the aberrations of Nazism, and sincerely hate all manifestations, work at the same time for ideals whose realization would lead straight to the abhorred tyranny.
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Aberration Hate Thinking
Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.
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Conservatism Conserves Good

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