Without a theory the facts are silent.

The attitude of the liberal towards society is like that of the gardener who tends a plant and, in order to create the conditions most favorable to its growth, must know as much as possible about its structure and the way it functions.

...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.

Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

You can have economic freedom without political freedom, but you cannot have political freedom without economic freedom.

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.