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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.

Friedrich August von Hayek

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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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There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.
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The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
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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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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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Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.
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When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.
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Capitalism created the possibility of employment.
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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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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
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Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.
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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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Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most of those features of totalitarianism which horrify us follow of necessity
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The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.
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Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.
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If socialists understood economics, they wouldn’t be socialist.
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