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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…
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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
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...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a…
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All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in…
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The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less…
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The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the…
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Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment…
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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…
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Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of…
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Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy…
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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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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on…
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Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason…
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If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another.
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The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established,…
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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it.…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the…
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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime...
— Lord Acton
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Not to open the hunting season on the pretext that there is no game would be as if one gave up celebrating…
— Unknown Author
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We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.
— Saint Basil
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The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near…
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