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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…
- 'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
- ...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of…
- 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…
- The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who…
- 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…
- 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…
- What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.
- Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions…
- Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to…
- The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily…
- The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators…
- There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.
- We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a…
- The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less than that which…
- The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
- Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences…
- Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.
- A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
- 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…
- To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our…
- If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification…
- I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain…
- We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
- The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
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- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
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