Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEKIt 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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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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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.
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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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We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.
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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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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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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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The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the “wrong” beliefs.
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Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.
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The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.
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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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Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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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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We shall never prevent the abuse of power if we are not prepared to limit power in a way which occasionally may prevent its use for desirable purposes.
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