"We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice."

Friedrich August von Hayek, Austrian Economist

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"We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice."

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"Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product."

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"We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information."

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"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."

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"It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world."

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"Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom."

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