We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately 'create the future of mankind'

It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program - on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off - than on any positive task.

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.

The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.

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

Competition is like experimentation in science, a discovery process, and it must rely on the self interest of producers, it must allow them to use their knowledge for their purposes, because nobody else possesses the information

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