The Freedom That Will Be Used By

Wherever Liberty As We Understand It Has Been Destroyed, This Has Almost Always Been Done In The Name Of Some New Freedom Promised To The People

It Is Tempting To Believe That Social Evils Arise From The Activities Of Evil Men And That If Only Good Men (like Ourselves, Naturally) Wielded Power, All Would Be Well. That View Requires Only Emotion And Self-praise - Easy To Come By And Satisfying As Well. To Understand Why It Is That 'good' Men In Positions Of Power Will Produce Evil, While The Ordinary Man Without Power But Able To Engage In Voluntary Cooperation With His Neighbors Will Produce Good, Requires Analysis And Thought, Subordinating Emotions To The Rational.

Socialism Has Never And Nowhere Been At First A Working-class Movement.

It Is Only Because The Majority Opinion Will Always Be Opposed By Some That Our Knowledge And Understanding Progress... It Is Always From A Minority Acting In Ways Different From What The Majority Would Prescribe That The Majority In The End Learns To Do Better.

I Must Confess That If I Had Been Consulted Whether To Establish A Nobel Prize In Economics, I Should Have Decidedly Advised Against It.