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Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.

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Whatever men live for, today most live only because of the market order.

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A policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy.

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Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.

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From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.

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To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.

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We need good principles rather than good people. We need fixed rules, not fixers.

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The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

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No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.

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That order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive

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We shall all be the gainers if we can create a world fit for small states to live in.

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The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

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It is not the source but the limitation of power which prevents it from being
arbitrary.

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When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.

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We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage.

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We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.

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A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

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Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

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Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.

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There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.

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Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.

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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.

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One cannot help a country to maintain its standard of life by assisting people to consume more than they produce.

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Never will man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success

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Planning and competition can be combined only by planning for competition, but not by planning against competition.

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If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve.

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If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.

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The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

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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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