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“We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately 'create the future of mankind'”

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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 for those…

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By the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point…

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Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.

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Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them…

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It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back one's own conviction against a majority, and the willingness to voluntary cooperation with one's neighbors--are essentially those on which the of an individualist society rests. Collectivism has nothing to put in their place, and in so…

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Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal antireligionism which animated so much of nineteenth-century Continental liberalism. ... What distinguishes the liberal from the conservative here is that, however profound his own spiritual beliefs, he will never regard himself as entitled to impose them…

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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 of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds, the prospects of freedom are indeed dark. But if we…

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The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring about the…

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The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of…

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The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

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[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most…

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It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends…

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