"The great merit of gold is precisely that……" — Henry Hazlitt
"The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to mine, and to process; and that it cannot be created by political fiat or caprice."
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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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Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is…
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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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More Caprice Quotes
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one of 65 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
— Max Eastman
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Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss…
— William Shakespeare
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Idleness induces caprice.
— James Russell Lowell
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One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run…
— Samuel Smiles
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The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the…
— William Hazlitt
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We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.
— Jules Michelet
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Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke…
— Charlotte Bronte
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It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they…
— James Madison
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