The Guiding Principle That A Policy Of

[the] Impersonal Process Of The Market ... Can Be Neither Just Nor Unjust, Because The Results Are Not Intended Or Foreseen.

The Freedom That Will Be Used By Only One Man In A Million May Be More Important To Society And More Beneficial To The Majority Than Any Freedom That We All Use.

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.

Least Of All Shall We Preserve Democracy Or Foster Its Growth If All The Power And Most Of The Important Decisions Rest With An Organization Far Too Big For The Common Man To Survey Or Comprehend.

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.