The [classical] liberal, of course, does not deny that there are some superior people -- he is not an egalitarian -- but he denies that anyone has authority to decide who these superior people are.

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

In government, the scum rises to the top.

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

And who will deny that a world in which the wealthy are powerful is still a better world than one in which only the already powerful can acquire wealth?

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

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.