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The Moral Consequences Of Totalitarian Propaganda...are Destructive Of All Morals Because They Undermind One Of The Foundations Of All Morals: The Sense Of And Respect For Truth.

The Nobel Prize Confers On An Individual An Authority Which In Economics No Man Ought To Possess.

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 On The Belief That The View Which Will Direct Government Emerges From An Independent And Spontaneous Process. It Requires, Therefore, The Existence Of A Large Sphere Independent Of Majority Control In Which The Opinions Of The Individuals Are Formed.

It Is No Accident That On The Whole There Was More Beauty And Decency To Be Found In The Life Of The Small Peoples, And That Among The Large Ones There Was More Happiness And Content In Proportion As They Had Avoided The Deadly Blight Of Centralization.

If We Wish To Preserve A Free Society, It Is Essential That We Recognize That The Desirability Of A Particular Object Is Not Sufficient Justification For The Use Of Coercion.