The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEKOnce politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.
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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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Hayek was making us think of the productive process as a process in time, inputs coming before outputs.
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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
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Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies.
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I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
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Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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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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To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.
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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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Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.
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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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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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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
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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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Without a theory the facts are silent.
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