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

Unlike proportionality, progression provides no principle which tells us what the relative burden of different persons ought to be the argument based on the presumed justice of progression provides no limitation, as has often been admitted by its supporters, before all incomes above a certain figure are confiscated, and those below left untaxed.

There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.

We shall all be the gainers if we can create a world fit for small states to live in.

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.

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.