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The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.

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Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.

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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…

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Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we…

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To discover the meaning of what is called "social justice" has been one of my chief preoccupations for more than 10 years.…

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It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a…

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In no other field has the world yet paid so dearly for the abandonment of nineteenth-century liberalism as in the field where…

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I use throughout the term 'liberal' in the original, nineteenth-century sense in which it is still current in Britain. In current American…

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The younger generation of today has grown up in a world in which in school and press the spirit of commercial enterprise…

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I am convinced that if the market system were the result of deliberate human design, and if the people guided by the…

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It may be that a free society... carries in itself the forces of its own destruction, that once freedom has been achieved…

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Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the…

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That democratic socialism, the great utopia of the last few generations, is not only unachievable, but that to strive for it produces…

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Even when men approve of the same arrangements, it must be asked whether they approve of them because they exist or because…

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In the United States, where it has become almost impossible to use "liberal" in the sense in which I have used it,…

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Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.

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Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them…

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It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back…

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Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal…

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We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage… Unless we can make the philosophic…

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The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring about the…

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The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of…

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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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[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most…

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