From The Fact That People Are Very

Liberty'''.that Condition Of Man In Which Coercion Of Some By Others Is Reduced As Much As Possible In Society

Human Envy Is Certainly Not One Of The Sources Of Discontent That A Free Society Can Eliminate. It Is Probably One Of The Essential Conditions For The Preservation Of Such A Society That We Do Not Countenance Envy, Not Sanction Its Demands By Camouflaging It As Social Justice, But Treat It, In The Words Of John Stuart Mill, As 'the Most Anti-social And Evil Of All Passions.'

Liberty Is An Opportunity For Doing Good, But This Is Only So When It Is Also An Opportunity For Doing Wrong.

I Was Quite Depressed Two Weeks Ago When I Spent An Afternoon At Brentano's Bookshop In New York And Was Looking At The Kind Of Books Most People Read. That Seems To Be Hopeless; Once You See That You Lose All Hope.

Conservatism, Though A Necessary Element In Any Stable Society, Is Not A Social Program; In Its Paternalistic, Nationalistic And Power Adoring Tendencies It Is Often Closer To Socialism Than True Liberalism; And With Its Traditionalistic, Anti-intellectual, And Often Mystical Propensities It Will Never, Except In Short Periods Of Disillusionment, Appeal To The Young And All Those Others Who Believe That Some Changes Are Desirable If This World Is To Become A Better Place.