If precious metals had been abundant, they would not have been precious. — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Capitalism will continue to eliminate mass poverty in more and more places and to an increasingly marked extent if it is merely… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If there is to be no loss whatever of dignity or self-respect in getting and staying on relief, then there can be… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The crying need today is not for more laws, but for fewer. The world must be saved from its saviors. If the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If a government resorts to inflation, that is, creates money in order to cover its budget deficits or expands credit in order… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Socialists will often talk as if some form of superbly equalized destitution were preferable to "maldistributed" plenty. A national income that is… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Precisely because the State has the monopoly of coercion it can be allowed the monopoly only of coercion. Only if the modern… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“all loans, in the eyes of honest borrowers, must eventually he repaid. All credit is debt. Proposals for an increased volume of… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When your money is taken by a thief, you get nothing in return. When your money is taken through taxes to support… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“This is perhaps as good a place as any to point out that what distinguishes many reformers from those who cannot accept their proposals… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The analysis of our illustrations has taught us another incidental lesson. This is that, when we study the effects of various proposals, not merely… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is a profound contrast between the effects of foreign aid and of voluntary private investment: foreign aid goes from government to government. It… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Multiculturalism means your kid has to learn some wretched tribal dirge for the school holiday concert instead of getting to sing 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is possible to increase paper-money income to any amount by debasing the currency. But real income can only be increased by working harder… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Inflation makes the extension of socialism possible by providing the financial chaos in which it flourishes. The fact is that socialism and inflation are… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“the desperate need to get back to normal housing and other living conditions stimulated increased efforts. But this does not mean that property destruction… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of low wages,… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
