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The Free Market and its Enemies
Written by Thomas Costanzo Subject: MotivationThe
Free Market and its Enemies
A book of Quotes assembled by James
R. Cook Page 5
“Capitalism will continue to eliminate mass poverty in more
and more places and to an increasingly marked extent, if it is merely permitted
to do so.” Henry Hazlitt
“…the greatest political problem facing the world today is…how
to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable
bounds.” Leonard E. Read
“Liberals see the
constitution itself as “living” and “evolving”- that is, gradually turning into
something that would be totally unrecognizable to its authors.” Joseph Sobran
“The capitalist system has lifted mankind out of mass
poverty. It is this system that in the
last century, in the last generation, even in the last decade, has
acceleratively been changed the face of the world, and has provided the masses
of mankind with amenities that even kings did not posses or imagine a few
generations ago.” Henry Hazlitt
“Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and
proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo in society, are assumed to be all
worthy souls, grievously wronged; and none of them are thought of as bearing
penalties of their misdeeds.” Herbert Spencer
“Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by
necessity the opposite of liberty.
Ludwig Von Mises
“Government doesn’t work.
You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, The Salvation
Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but Government doesn’t.” Harry Browne
“Can anyone recall the last time a government bureaucracy
declared that it had fulfilled its mission and now should be abolished?” Michael D. Tanner
“Short-sighted and impatient efforts to wipe out poverty by
severing the connection between effort and reward can only lead to the growth
of a totalitarian state, and destroy the economic progress that this country
has so dearly bought.” Henry Hazlitt
“The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to
live at the expense of everyone else.” Frederick Bastiat