1117. (12-26-2010) At the first, when some certain kind of regiment was once approved, it may be that nothing was then further thought u...

1111. (12-24-2010) …democracy will remain effective only so long as government in its coercive action confines itself to task that can b...

1109. (12-24-2010) (This is a very appropriate statement to consider.)ATJ So long as democracy constrains the individual only by ge...

1105. (12-22-2010) …the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerf...

1096. (12-22-2010) …it is the acceptance of…common principles that makes a collection of people a community. And this common acceptance ...

1091. (12-20-2010) Equality before the law leads to the demand that all men should also have the same share in making the law. This is t...

1078. (12-17-2010) The modern tendency to gratify this passion (envy)ATJ and to disguise it in the respectable garment of social justice...

1073. (12-16-2010) I have no respect for the passion for equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr...

1068. (12-14-2010) Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is so only when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong. The fac...

1056. (12-13-2010) It is doubtful that democracy could survive in a society organized on the principle of therapy rather than judgment, ...

1049. (12-9-2010) Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites...

1040. (12-8-2010) Long experience (history)ATJ makes more discoveries touching conveniences or inconveniences of laws than is possible f...

1033. (12-7-2010) Though freedom is not a state of nature but an artifact of civilization, it did not arise from design. The institution...

1029. (12-3-2010) If today some nations can in a few decades acquire a level of material comfort that took the West hundreds or thousand...

1024. (12-2-2010) Knowledge, once achieved, becomes gratuitously available for the benefit of all. It is through this free gift of the k...

1016. (12-1-2010) Which individuals and which groups succeed and continue to exist depends as much on the goals that they pursue, the va...

1010. (11-30-2010) It is because we do not know how individuals will use their freedom that it is so important….It is therefore not nece...

1007. (11-30-2010) We shall never get the benefits of freedom, never obtain those unforeseeable new developments for which it provides t...

1000. (11-29-2010) …the case for individual freedom rest chiefly on the recognition of the inevitable ignorance of all of us concerning ...

997. (11-29-2010) Unfortunately, the popular effect of…scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientists, that t...