The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEKThe chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.
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Liberty”’.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society
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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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Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.
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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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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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Capitalism created the possibility of employment.
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Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and Nazism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.
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Perhaps even more than elsewhere current notions of what is desirable and practicable are here still of a kind which may well produce the opposite of what they promise.
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It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.
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Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.
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Never will man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success
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To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.
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Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.
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The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
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It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.
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