Quote by Thomas M. Nichols

The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.

— Peter L. Berger

Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century.

— Vernon L. Smith

.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

— Irving Kristol

Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich Hayek should…

— Philip E. Agre

Friedrich Hayek, who died on March 23, 1992 at age 92, was arguably the greatest social scientist of the twentieth century. By the time…

— Julian Simon

[I]f one asks what substantive contributions [F. A. Hayek] made to our understanding of how the world works, one is left at something of…

— Paul Krugman

.. the publication of Friedrich A. von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom in 1944 is rightly seen as the first shot in the intellectual…

— E. J. Dionne

“Central planning inevitably leads to economic chaos and failure. Friedrich Hayek called the delusion that a single person or a group of government planners…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“When we, in the communist countries, came across the ideas of Hayek and Aron, we had no problems to understand their importance. They gave…

— Vaclav Klaus

“Advocates of capitalism like to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained…

— Bertrand Russell

“The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”

— Charles Slack