Conservatism

Great Britain would not have gone socialist if the Conservatives, not to speak of the “Liberals,” had not virtually endorsed socialist ideas.

Theory and History, p. 319n

The essence of an individual’s freedom is the opportunity to deviate from traditional ways of thinking and of doing things.

Theory and History, p. 378

Every conservative policy, however, is fated from the start to fail; after all, its essence is to stop something unstoppable, to resist a development that cannot be impeded.

Nation, State, and Economy, p. 119

Every reactionary lacks intellectual independence.

Nation, State, and Economy, p. 119

A return to the Middle Ages is out of the question if one is not prepared to reduce the population to a tenth or a twentieth part of its present number and, even further, to oblige every individual to be satisfied with a modicum so small as to be beyond the imagination of modern man.

Liberalism, p. 86

What transformed the stagnant conditions of the good old days into the activism of capitalism was not changes in the natural sciences and in technology, but the adoption of the free enterprise principle.

The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science, p. 122