The first need is to free ourselves of that worst form of contemporary obscurantism which tries to persuade us that what we have done in the recent past was all either wise or unavoidable. We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life which can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends. And who…

The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal of democracy rests…

The effect of the people's agreeing that there must be central planning, without agreeing on the ends, will be rather as if a group of people were to commit th…

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

The road to wisdom? - Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less.