Classical-liberalism Quotes

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to th...

When, thirty-five years ago, I tried to give a summary of the ideas and principles of that social ph...

How little one is justified in speaking in this connection of "optimism" and "pessimism" and how muc...

It is illogical to say, as many etatists do, that liberalism is hostile to or hates the state, becau...

And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made e...

The search for liberty is simply part of the greater search for a world where respect for the rule o...

These ideas grew out of the Enlightenment; their roots are in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, Hu...

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.

To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like tr...

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, h...