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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.

Friedrich August von Hayek

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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Important Majority Men
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
He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.
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Growth Handwork Shapes
Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.
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Government Pie War
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
In government, the scum rises to the top.
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Government Libertarian Scum
To create conditions in which competition will be as effective as possible, to prevent fraud and deception, to break up monopolies- these tasks provide a wide and unquestioned field for state activity.
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Competition Deception Tasks
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
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Freedom Generation Government Our
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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Abuse Desirable May Occasionally Purpose
Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.
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Danger Doubt Eye
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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Justice Liberty Men
Capitalism created the possibility of employment.
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Capitalism Employment Possibility
Liberty”’.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society
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Coercion Liberty Men
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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Effort Freedom Individual Mean
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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Order Population Race
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