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Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.

Friedrich August von Hayek

We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately “create the future of mankind.” This is the final conclusion of the forty years which I have now devoted to the study of these problems
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK

Finals Mankind Study Years
In government, the scum rises to the top.
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Government Libertarian Scum
The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.
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Evil Government Unlimited
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
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
Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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Historical Liberty War
[The] impersonal process of the market … can be neither just nor unjust, because the results are not intended or foreseen.
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Justice Process Unjust
Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.
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Done Mean Necessarily
It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody’s permission or to obey anybody’s orders. It is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today.
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Men Order Responsibility
Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.
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Conservatism Conserves Good
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
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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Assumptions Beliefs Facts Moral
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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Causes Limits Real
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
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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Advanced Majority Point Views
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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May Opposites Promise