"Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily."

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I am still puzzled why those in the United States who truly believe in liberty should not only have allowed the left to appropriate this almost indispensable term but should even have assisted by beginning to use it themselves as a term of opprobrium. This seems to be particularly regrettable because of the consequent tendency of many true liberals to describe themselves as conservatives.

— Friedrich August von Hayek