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

There can be little doubt that man owes some of his greatest successes in the past to the fact that he has not been able to control social life. His continued advance may well depend on his deliberately refraining from exercising controls which are now in his power.

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

[The] impersonal process of the market ... can be neither just nor unjust, because the results are not intended or foreseen.

Money is one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented by man. It is money which in existing society opens an astounding range of choice to the poor man, a range greater than that which not many generations ago was open to the wealthy

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