Wherever Liberty As We Understand It Has

The Social Sciences, Like Much Of Biology But Unlike Most Fields Of The Physical Sciences, Have To Deal With Structures Of Essential Complexity, I.e. With Structures Whose Characteristic Properties Can Be Exhibited Only By Models Made Up Of Relatively Large Numbers Of Variables.

A General Flat Minimum-wage Law For All Industry Is Permissible, But I Do Not Think That It Is A Particularly Wise Method Of Achieving The End. I Know Much Better Methods Of Providing A Minimum For Everybody. But Once You Turn From Laying Down A General Minimum For All Industry To Decreeing Particular And Different Minimum For Different Industries, Then, Of Course, You Make The Price Mechanism Inoperative, Because It Is No Longer The Price Mechanism Which Will Guide People Between Industries And Trades.

If Freedom Is To Flourish The Philosophic Foundations Of A Free Society Must Be Kept A Living Intellectual Issue And Its Implementation A Task Which Challenges The Ingenuity And Imagination Of The Liveliest Minds.

By The Age Of Fifteen, I Had Convinced Myself That Nobody Could Give A Reasonable Explanation Of What He Meant By The Word 'god' And That It Was Therefore As Meaningless To Assert A Belief As To Assert A Disbelief In God. Though This, In A General Way, Has Remained My Position Ever Since, I Have Always Avoided Unnecessarily To Offend Other People Holding Religious Belief By Displaying My Lack Of Such Belief, Or Even Stating My Lack Of Belief, If I Was Not Challenged.

Perhaps The Fact That We Have Seen Millions Voting Themselves Into Complete Dependence On A Tyrant Has Made Our Generation Understand That To Choose One's Government Is Not Necessarily To Secure Freedom.