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Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes: 'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
         

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.


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The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.



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