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“The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative”

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Milton Friedman was a renowned economist known for his contributions to the field of free-market economics. His research in monetary economics, consumer behavior, and tax policy has had a profound impact. more

“The economic freedom which is the prerequisite of any other freedom cannot be the freedom from economic care which the socialist promise us, and which can be obtained only by relieving the individual at the same time of the necessity and of the power of choice: it must be the freedom of economic activity which, with the right of choice, inevitably also carries the risk and the responsibility of that right”

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Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“It may be that a free society... carries in itself the forces of its own destruction, that once freedom has been achieved it is taken for granted and ceases to be valued, and that the free growth of ideas which is the essence of a free society will bring about the destruction of the foundations on which it depends.”

May Has Beens Ideas Force Growth Taken Depends Destruction Essence Foundation Cease Granted Carrie Free Society Taken For Granted

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“If freedom is to flourish the philosophic foundations of a free society must be kept a living intellectual issue and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of the liveliest minds.”

Ifs Mind Imagination Challenges Issues Intellectual Tasks Foundation Ingenuity Free Society Implementation Philosophic

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“In any society freedom of thought will probably be of direct significance for a small minority. But this does not mean that anyone is competent, or ought to have power, to select those to whom this freedom is to be reserved.”

Mean Doe Ought Direct Minorities Significance Select Competent Reserved Freedom Of Thought Road To Serfdom

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Liberty'''.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society”

Men Liberty Conditions Coercion

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“There is only one '' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the enforcement of general abstract rules equally applicable to all.”

Principles Preserves Abstract Strict Enforcement Coercion Free Society Prevention

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“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”

People Has Beens Done Names Liberty Destroyed

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved”

Humans Moral Human Life Features Crucial Protected Free Society

Book:The Passion for Liberty

Source: The Passion for Liberty

“All free communities have both been more exempt from social injustice and crime, and have attained more brilliant prosperity, than any others, or than they themselves after they have lost their freedom.”

Lost Social Community Crime Injustice Prosperity Brilliant Social Injustice

Book:On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays

Source: On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays

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