Capitalism created the possibility of employment.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEKThe great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
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[T]hose who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken from those not prepared to do so.
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…the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.
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We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
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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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It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.
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With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.
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Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.
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Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.
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The attitude of the liberal towards society is like that of the gardener who tends a plant and, in order to create the conditions most favorable to its growth, must know as much as possible about its structure and the way it functions.
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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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I have come to feel strongly that the greatest service I can still render to my fellow men would be that I could make the speakers and writers among them thoroughly ashamed ever again to employ the term “social justice.
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Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.
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Without a theory the facts are silent.
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We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
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Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.
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