Henry Hazlitt Quotes About Politicians

Quotes about: Politicians

• 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.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Hands, Liberty, Quality

• For every alleged benefit that the politicians confer upon us, they must necessarily deprive us of something else.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Benefits, Politician

• Once the premise is accepted that poverty is never the fault of the poor but the fault of 'society,' or of 'the capitalist system, then there is no definable limit to be set on relief, and the politicians who want to be elected or reelected will compete with each other in proposing new 'welfare' programs to fill some hitherto 'unmet need.'

  Henry Hazlitt

  Welfare Programs, Relief, Needs

  Henry Hazlitt, Hans F. Sennholz (1993). “The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt”, Foundation for Economic Education

• Once the idea is accepted that money is something whose supply is determined simply by the printing press, it becomes impossible for the politicians in power to resist the constant demands for further inflation.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Ideas, Demand, Determined

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.162, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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