Friedrich Hayek Quotes

Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.

To me, conservative means believing in a minimum amount of government and a maximum amount of freedom - and keeping government out of people's lives and business - and leaving people alone.

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.

Economic freedom is an end in itself …. Economic freedom is an indispensable means towards the achievement of political freedom.

And now that the legislators and do gooders have futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems. And try liberty …

The less government we have, the better—the fewer laws, and the less confided power.

If there is one belief that unifies most Alaskans - our true north - it is less government and more freedom. We don't want the government in our pockets or our bedrooms; we certainly don't need it in our families.

Freedom and liberty always mean freedom from police interference.

I have no quarrel with libertarians who advance the concept of capitalism . I believe that people will decide for themselves what they want to do. The all-important thing is that they be free to make that decision and that they do not stand in the way of communities that wish to make other decisions.

[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history.

What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

Being a conservative also used to involve the concept of people being free to do whatever they want to do, as long as it doesn't hurt somebody else. Conservatives used to be very libertarian.

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms rest. This is what freedom means.

The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that.

Economic freedom is ... an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.

Our principle is: to prevent all command over man by his fellowmen, to, make state, government, laws, or whatsoever form of compulsion existing, a thing of the past, to establish full freedom for all. Anarchism means first and foremost freedom from all government.

People are going to do stupid things, but you don't take away the freedom because somebody makes a stupid decision.

I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior.

However widespread the desire to be free, that is wholly different from a desire to live in a society where others are free.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.