"We cannot distribute more wealth than is created.……" — Henry Hazlitt
"We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces."
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54 Quotes by Henry Hazlitt
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- There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.
- It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists…
- Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.
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- The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a…
- What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.
- Everywhere the means is erected into the end, and the end itself is forgotten.
- 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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