Road to Serfdom in Cartoons

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Originally published in Look magazine Reproduced from a booklet published by General Motors, Detroit, in the ‘Thought Starter’ series (no. 118)

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Road to Serfdom in Cartoons

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  • Originally published in Look magazine

    Reproduced from a booklet published by General Motors, Detroit, in the Thought Starter series (no. 118)

    We must regain the conviction on which liberty in the Anglo-Saxon countries has been based and which Benjamin Franklin expressed in a phrase applicable to us as individuals no less than as nations: Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

    Toward a better world

    To build a better world, we must have the courage to make a new start. We must clear away the obstacles with which human folly has recently encumbered our path and release the creative energy of individuals. We must create conditions favourable to progress rather than planning progress.

    It is not those who cry for more planning who show the necessary courage, nor those who preach a New Order, which is no more than a continuation of the tendencies of the past 40 years, and who can think of nothing better than to imitate Hitler. It is, indeed, those who cry loudest for a planned economy who are most completely under the sway of the ideas which have created this war and most of the evils from which we suffer.

    The guiding principle in any attempt to create a world of free men must be this: a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy.

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