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

As is true with respect to other great evils, the measures by which war might be made altogether impossible for the future may well be worse than even war itself.

To rest the case for equal treatment of national or racial minorities on the assumption that they do not differ from other men is implicitly to admit that factual inequality would justify unequal treatment, and the proof that some differences do, in fact, exist would not be long in forthcoming. 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.

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

A general flat minimum-wage law for all industry is permissible, but I do not think that it is a particularly wise method of achieving the end. I know much better methods of providing a minimum for everybody. But once you turn from laying down a general minimum for all industry to decreeing particular and different minimum for different industries, then, of course, you make the price mechanism inoperative, because it is no longer the price mechanism which will guide people between industries and trades.

... that order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive

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