From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict which each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.

Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of human activities, in habits and practices. And…

From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.

Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the stat…

Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.

It is one thing to assure a man the legal right to eat in a restaurant; it is another thing to assure that he can earn the money to eat there.

And with respect to the mode in which these general principles affect the secure possession of property, so far am I from invalidating such security, that the …