Friedrich Hayek

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of dist.

Economics is the painful elaboration of the obvious.