Henry Hazlitt Quotes

To think at all requires a purpose, no matter how vague. The best thinking, however, requires a defi...

What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.

If we try to run the economy for the benefit of a single group or class, we shall injure or destroy ...

The demoralization that the debase­ment of the currency left in its wake played a major role in brin...

A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.

private loans will utilize existing resources and capital far better than government loans. Governme...

The dilemma is this. In the modern world knowledge has been growing so fast and so enormously, in al...

To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like tr...

When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private ...

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the me...

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The i...

ECONOMICS IS HAUNTED by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The i...

There is a strange idea abroad, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives...

Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is f...

need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing ...

..either immediately or ultimately every dollar of government spending must be raised through a doll...

the larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private...

Nothing is easier to achieve than full employment, once it is divorced from the goal of full product...

This is perhaps as good a place as any to point out that what distinguishes many reformers from thos...

When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for...

For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers...

There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering...

Mere inflation-that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and pr...

The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop o...

It is almost possible to sum up the whole process of thinking as the occurrence of suggestions for t...

A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious o...