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“Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of economic freedom. Where there is no market economy, the best-intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.”

Source: Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays

“The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it.”

Men Mind Long Seems Spirit Liberty Break Limits Flames Sparks Coercion

Book:Challenge Liberty

Source: Challenge Liberty

“If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.”

Ifs Use Wish Liberty Economy Economic Objects Particular Essentials Preserves Sufficient Justification Coercion Free Society Desirability

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and law, religion and morality, the rights of conscience, the rights of persons, and the rights of property, may all be preserved and secured, in the most perfect manner, by a government entirely and purely elective. If we fail in this, our disaster will be significant, and will furnish an argument, stronger than has yet been found, in support of those opinions which maintain that government can rest safely on nothing but power and coercion.”

Source: A Discourse, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820: In Commemoration of the First Settlement of New-England

“Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically, it sometimes happens that the only way to preserve freedom is through judicious controls on the exercise of private power. If we believe in liberty, it must be freedom from both private and public coercion.”

Ifs Way Believe Sometimes Happens Would Be Born Liberty Exercise Chains Preserves Coercion Emperor Forging Born Free

Book:The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

Source: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

“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

“People who denounce the free market and voluntary exchange, and are for control and coercion, believe they have more intelligence and superior wisdom to the masses. What's more, they believe they've been ordained to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us. Of course, they have what they consider good reasons for doing so, but every tyrant that has ever existed has had what he believed were good reasons for restricting the liberty of others.”

People Believe Reason Courses Liberty Mass Superiors Tyrants Free Market Coercion

Book:Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays

Source: Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays