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Henry Hazlitt Quotes: Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.
         

Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.


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Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking!



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The envious are more likely to be mollified by seeing others deprived of some advantage than by gaining it for themselves. It is not what they lack that chiefly troubles them, but what others have.



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The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.



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The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.



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Inflation makes the extension of socialism possible by providing the financial chaos in which it flourishes. The fact is that socialism and inflation are cause and effect, they feed on each other!



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There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.





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