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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 something so utterly…

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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…
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a…
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in…
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less…
The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the…
Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment…
What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he…
Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of…
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy…
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics…

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