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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.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Without a theory the facts are silent.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK

Facts Silent Theory
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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Individual Problem Use
The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
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Law Liberty Struggle
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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Continuing Errors Men
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK

Justice Umpires Views
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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Ends Individual 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
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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Essence Law People
If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.
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Democracy Light Mean
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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Faith Government Thinking
Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people
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Liberty Names People
In government, the scum rises to the top.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK

Government Libertarian Scum
Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK

Conservatism Conserves Good
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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Government Issues People
We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.
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Civilisation History Realising
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.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK

Greatest Justice Men Services Writer