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The State Itself Becomes More And More Identified With The Interests Of Those Who Run Things Than With The Interests Of The People In General.

It Is Because Freedom Means The Renunciation Of Direct Control Of Individual Efforts That A Free Society Can Make Use Of So Much More Knowledge Than The Mind Of The Wisest Ruler Could Comprehend.

Economic Transactions Between National Bodies Who Are At The Same Time The Supreme Judges Of Their Own Behavior, Who Bow To No Superior Law, And Whose Representatives Cannot Be Bound By Any Considerations But The Immediate Interest Of Their Respective Nations, Must End In Clashes Of Power.

By The Age Of Fifteen, I Had Convinced Myself That Nobody Could Give A Reasonable Explanation Of What He Meant By The Word 'god' And That It Was Therefore As Meaningless To Assert A Belief As To Assert A Disbelief In God. Though This, In A General Way, Has Remained My Position Ever Since, I Have Always Avoided Unnecessarily To Offend Other People Holding Religious Belief By Displaying My Lack Of Such Belief, Or Even Stating My Lack Of Belief, If I Was Not Challenged.

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.