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- What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.
- 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…
- It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than…
- Inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more and more government control necessary.…
- It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge…
- The importance of our being free to do a particular thing has nothing to do with the question of whether we or the majority are…
- We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage.
- ..where effective competition can be created, it is a better way of guiding individual efforts than any other... regards competition as superior not only because…
- Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science."…
- Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means infallible or certain.…
- This is the constitutional limitation of man's knowledge and interests, the fact that he cannot know more than a tiny part of the whole of…
- This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have…
- We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage.... Unless we can make the philosophic foundations…
- It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain an inclination to criticize must also be…
- The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.
- Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances, but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more…
- Civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve…
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