"Everything we get, outside of the free gifts……" — Henry Hazlitt
"Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so- called economists who in turn are full of schemes for getting something for nothing. They tell us that the government can spend and spend without taxing at all; that it can continue to pile up debt without ever paying it off, because "we owe it to ourselves.""
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Henry Hazlitt
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54 Quotes by Henry Hazlitt
Henry Hazlitt has 54 quotes on this site.
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The monetary managers are fond of telling us that they have substituted 'responsible money management' for the gold standard. But…
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The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because…
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Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed…
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There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.
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It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists…
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Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.
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The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment.…
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The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a…
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What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.
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Everywhere the means is erected into the end, and the end itself is forgotten.
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Mere inflation-that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and prices-may look like the…
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From a strictly economic point of view, buying gold in a major inflation and holding it probably presents the least…
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