Liberty'''.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society

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

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

If we were to make no better use of victory than to countenance existing trends in this direction, only too visible before 1939, we might indeed find that we have defeated National Socialism merely to create a world of many national socialisms, differing in detail, but all equally totalitarian, nationalistic, and in recurrent conflict with each other.

The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.

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

To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about.