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.

Friedrich Hayek

The Road to Serfdom

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Topic

Property rights Freedom

Author

Friedrich Hayek

Source

The Road to Serfdom

Genre

Political literature Economic literature

Language

English

Time

1944 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Economist Philosopher Writer

From

Austria Europe

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Citation

Von Hayek, Friedrich August. The Road to Serfdom [Der Weg zur Knechtschaft]. Routledge Press/University of Chicago Press, 1944, ch. 8.

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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression, even though that cost be blood.

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Hell is other people.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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