Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them in relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come to be widely believed that the use of private property is tainted with evil and should not be espoused by rational and civilized men... the only dependable foundation of personal liberty is the personal economic security of private property. The Good Society.

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

In a place where everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks very much.