Government welfarism, with its ever-increasing army of pensioners and other beneficiaries, is fatally easy to launch and fatally easy to extend, but ….

The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit….

Inflation is not only unnecessary for economic growth. As long as it exists it is the enemy of economic growth..

When any welfare scheme is being proposed, its political sponsors always dwell on what a generous and compassionate government should pay to Paul; th….

The vital consideration of incentives is almost systematically overlooked in the proposals of agitators for more and bigger government welfare scheme….

When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes, sta….

Some champions of ever-greater governmental power and spending invent the theory that the taxpayers, left to themselves, spend the money they have ea….

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

Relief, or redistribution of income, voluntary or coerced, is never the true solution of poverty, but at best a makeshift, which may mask the disease….

Everywhere the means is erected into the end, and the end itself is forgotten..

There can be little doubt that many egalitarians are motivated at least partly by envy..

The bad economist sees only what immediately strikes the eye; the good economist also looks beyond. The bad economist sees only the direct consequenc….

Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so- called economists who in turn are full….

Diluting the money supply with paper is the moral equivalent of diluting the milk supply with water..

The first (lesson) which we meet again and again in history, is that once the dole or similar relief programs are introduced, they seem almost inevit….

In a free enterprise system, with an honest and stable money, there is dominantly a close link between effort and productivity, on the one hand, and ….

The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor..

There is a profound contrast between the effects of foreign aid and of voluntary private investment: foreign aid goes from government to government.….

A hundred welfare programs, spending more and more billions, lead to chronic budget deficits, which lead to increased paper-money issues, which lead ….

The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be re….

Bureaucrats denounce private enterprise for the consequences of their own reckless policies and demand still more governmental controls..