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.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEKIt would clearly not be an improvement to build all houses exactly alike in order to create a perfect market for houses, and the same is true of most other fields where differences between the individual products prevent competition from ever being perfect.
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Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.
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Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.
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The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.
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By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most complete despotism imaginable.
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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
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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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Socialism constitutes a threat to the present and future welfare of the human race, in the sense that neither socialism nor any other known substitute for the market order could sustain the current population of the world.
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It would clearly not be an improvement to build all houses exactly alike in order to create a perfect market for houses, and the same is true of most other fields where differences between the individual products prevent competition from ever being perfect.
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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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I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano’s Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of books most people read. That seems to be hopeless; once you see that you lose all hope.
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When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.
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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”’.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society
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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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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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