The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
Friedrich Hayek
equality liberty
Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.
doubt danger
Whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made to prevail by force if need be, it is less wasteful to determine which has the stronger support by counting numbers than by fighting.
force numbers
What distinguishes the liberal from the conservative here is that, however profound his own spiritual beliefs, he will never regard himself as entitled to impose them on others and that for him the spiritual and the temporal are different sphere which ought not to be confused.
belief
He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.
environment results growth manners
We certainly do not regard it as right that the citizens of a large country should dominate those of a small adjoining country merely because they are more numerous.
rights
It is when it is contended that in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.
rights majority
Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.
tradition products
The more the state plans the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.
plans
Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.
wrongs
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