Catallaxy ® Institute - Classical Liberalism

The most important among the few principles of this kind that we have developed is individual freedom, which it is most appropriate to regard as a moral principle of political action.Like all moral principles, it demands that it be accepted as a value in itself, as a principle that must be respected without our asking whether the consequences in the particular instance will be beneficial. We shall not achieve the results we want if we do not accept it as a creed or presumption so strong that no considerations of expediency can be allowed to limit it.

Hayek, Friedrich A.

The Constitution of Liberty

1960 , p. 68