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Justice, Like Liberty And Coercion, Is A Concept Which, For The Sake Of Clarity, Ought To Be Confined To The Deliberate Treatment Of Men By Other Men.

If We Were To Make No Better Use Of Victory Than To Countenance Existing Trends In This Direction, Only Too Visible Before 1939, We Might Indeed Find That We Have Defeated National Socialism Merely To Create A World Of Many National Socialisms, Differing In Detail, But All Equally Totalitarian, Nationalistic, And In Recurrent Conflict With Each Other.

It Is Of The Essence Of The Demand For Equality Before The Law That People Should Be Treated Alike In Spite Of The Fact That They Are Different.

We Must Face The Fact That The Preservation Of Individual Freedom Is Incompatible With A Full Satisfaction Of Our Views Of Distributive Justice.

Though Freedom And Wealth Are Both Good Things Which Most Of Us Desire And Though We Often Need Both To Obtain What We Wish, They Still Remain Different. Whether Or Not I Am My Own Master And Can Follow My Own Choice And Whether The Possibilities From Which I Must Choose Are Many Or Few Are Two Entirely Different Questions. The Courtier Living In The Lap Of Luxury But At The Beck And Call Of His Prince May Be Much Less Free Than A Poor Peasant Or Artisan, Less Able To Live His Own Life And To Choose His Own Opportunities For Usefulness.