When It Becomes Dominated By A Collectivist

Democracy Is Essentially A Means, A Utilitarian Device For Safeguarding Internal Peace And Individual Freedom. As Such It Is By No Means Infallible Or Certain. Nor Must We Forget That There Has Often Been Much More Cultural And Spiritual Freedom Under An Autocratic Rule Than Under Some Democracies And It Is At Least Conceivable That Under The Government Of A Very Homogeneous And Doctrinaire Majority Democratic Government Might Be As Oppressive As The Worst Dictatorship.

To Be Controlled In Our Economic Pursuits Means To Be Controlled In Everything.

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.

Nothing Is More Securely Lodged Than The Ignorance Of The Experts.

I Regard It In Fact As The Great Advantage Of The Mathematical Technique That It Allows Us To Describe, By Means Of Algebraic Equations, The General Character Of A Pattern Even Where We Are Ignorant Of The Numerical Values Which Will Determine Its Particular Manifestation.