Liberty'''.that Condition Of Man In Which Coercion

A Society That Does Not Recognise That Each Individual Has Values Of His Own Which He Is Entitled To Follow Can Have No Respect For The Dignity Of The Individual And Cannot Really Know Freedom.

In Government, The Scum Rises To The Top.

It Is Only Because The Majority Opinion Will Always Be Opposed By Some That Our Knowledge And Understanding Progress. In The Process By Which Opinion Is Formed, It Is Very Probable That, By The Time Any View Becomes A Majority View, It Is No Longer The Best View: Somebody Will Already Have Advanced Beyond The Point Which The Majority Have Reached. It Is Because We Do Not Yet Know Which Of The Many Competing New Opinions Will Prove Itself The Best That We Wait Until It Has Gained Sufficient Support.

Conservatives Are Inclined To Use The Powers Of Government To Prevent Change Or To Limit Its Rate To Whatever Appeals To The More Timid Mind. In Looking Forward, They Lack The Faith In The Spontaneous Forces Of Adjustment Which Makes The Liberal Accept Changes Without Apprehension, Even Though He Does Not Know How The Necessary Adaptations Will Be Brought About.

We Must Face The Fact That The Preservation Of Individual Freedom Is Incompatible With A Full Satisfaction Of Our Views Of Distributive Justice.