如果我们为了一些短期利益而屈从于集权,那么我们最终会走上‘通往奴役之路’。
市场秩序不是人类设计的产物,而是人类行动的结果。
自由意味着责任,因此许多人害怕自由。
我们必须认识到,知识的分布是分散的,没有一个中央权威可以掌握所有相关的信息。
自由的本质在于能够在不受他人任意干涉的情况下追求个人目标。
那些愿意为了安全而放弃自由的人,既得不到安全,也得不到自由。
We shall never prevent the abuse of power if we are not prepared to limit power in a way which occasionally may prevent its use for desirable purposes.
The market is an example of a spontaneous order: a system which is the product of human action but not of human design.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
The knowledge of the circumstances of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form, but solely as the dispersed bits of incomplete and frequently contradictory knowledge which all the separate individuals possess.
The essence of liberty is the ability to pursue one’s own goals without arbitrary interference from others.
Those who are willing to give up freedom for security will eventually lose both.