It may be that a free society... carries in itself the forces of its own destruction, that once freedom has been achieved it is taken for granted and ceases to be valued, and that the free growth of ideas which is the essence of a free society will bring about the destruction of the foundations on which it depends.

Perhaps even more than elsewhere current notions of what is desirable and practicable are here still of a kind which may well produce the opposite of what they promise.

Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.

Whatever men live for, today most live only because of the market order.

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.

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

If we were to make no better use of victory than to countenance existing trends in this direction, only too visible before 1939, we might indeed find that we have defeated National Socialism merely to create a world of many national socialisms, differing in detail, but all equally totalitarian, nationalistic, and in recurrent conflict with each other.