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 than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

That there is little hope of international order or lasting peace so long as every country is free to employ whatever measures it thinks desirable in its own immediate interest, however damaging they may be to others, needs little emphasis now.

The idea that human kind can shape the world according to wish is what I call the fatal conceit

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

It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

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 forces for the good than for the bad ... Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.