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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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