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Individual freedom and spontaneous orders (or catallaxy).

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''You can't deduce from this the rule that because people are unequal you ought to treat them unequally in order to make them equal.''

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Friedrich von Hayek
Firing Line, PBS, November 1977
Friedrich Hayek: A Biography

Friedrich Hayek: A Biography

In the first full biography of Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992), Alan Ebenstein chronicles the life, works, and legacy of the visionary thinker, from his early years in fin-de-siècle Vienna to his remarkable career as a Nobel Prize winning economist, political philosopher, and leading public intellectual.

Dr. Alan Ebenstein
University of Chicago Press, April 15, 2003

''Elsewhere is where they always are.”

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Sir Roger Scruton
National Conservatism, Europe at a Crossroads: The Virtue of Nationalism conference, London, May 13, 2019.
The new age of conformity and uniformity

The new age of conformity and uniformity

Anyone remember Apple's commercial of the late 1990s, ”Here's to the crazy ones”?

InvestmentOffice, June 2023
A Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Lockdowns on COVID-19 Mortality

A Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Lockdowns on COVID-19 Mortality

"While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument."

Jonas Herby, Lars Jonung, Steve H. Hanke
Studies in Applied Economics, No. 200, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise, January 2022.

''Non, vous n’êtes pas les hommes de la pratique, vous êtes des hommes d’abstraction… et d’extorsion.''

Quote addressed to "Messieurs les Monopoleurs".

Frédéric Bastiat
Sophismes économiques, XIII. Théorie, Pratique, 1848

''You are engineers of human souls...''

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Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
During his meeting with writers in preparation for the first Congress of the Union of Soviet Writers, October 1932

''Covid did not crash the economy, government crushed the economy.''

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Kristi Noem, 33rd and current governor of South Dakota since January 5, 2019.
2021 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Florida., February 27, 2021

“Nobody has any intention of building a wall!”

"Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten!"

GDR head of State, Walter Ulbricht
June 15, 1961

“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.”

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Milton Friedman
Tyranny of the Status Quo, San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1980) p. 115
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