Freedom Granted Only When It Is Known

With The Exception Only Of The Period Of The Gold Standard, Practically All Governments Of History Have Used Their Exclusive Power To Issue Money To Defraud And Plunder The People.

...the Case For Individual Freedom Rests Largely On The Recognition Of The Inevitable And Universal Ignorance Of All Of Us Concerning A Great Many Of The Factors On Which The Achievements Of Our Ends And Welfare Depend.

It Can Hardly Be Denied That Such A Demand Quite Arbitrarily Limits The Facts Which Are To Be Admitted As Possible Causes Of The Events Which Occur In The Real World.

To Live And Work Successfully With Others Requires More Than Faithfulness To One's Concrete Aims. It Requires An Intellectual Commitment To A Type Of Order In Which, Even On Issues Which To One Are Fundamental, Others Are Allowed To Pursue Different Ends. It Is For This Reason That To The Liberal Neither Moral Nor Religious Ideals Are Proper Objects Of Coercion, While Both Conservatives And Socialists Recognize No Such Limits.

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.