The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.

There is perhaps no single factor contributing so much to people's frequent reluctance to let the market work as their inability to conceive how some necessary balance, between demand and supply, between exports and imports, or the like, will be brought about without deliberate control. The conservative feels safe and content only if he is assured that some higher wisdom watches and supervises change, only if he knows that some authority is charged with keeping the change "orderly.

Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.

The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

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

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.