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

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

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

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

We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately "create the future of mankind." This is the final conclusion of the forty years which I have now devoted to the study of these problems

I am still puzzled why those in the United States who truly believe in liberty should not only have allowed the left to appropriate this almost indispensable term but should even have assisted by beginning to use it themselves as a term of opprobrium. This seems to be particularly regrettable because of the consequent tendency of many true liberals to describe themselves as conservatives.

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