Occupation: Journalist Birth: November 28, 1894 Death: July 8, 1993
Government provided free tuition tends more and more to produce a uniform conformist education, with college faculties ultimately dependent for their….
In order that one industry might grow or come into existence, a hundred other industries would have to shrink..
When each of us is free to work out his own economic destiny, within the framework of the market economy, the institution of private property, and th….
Government planning always involves compulsion..
Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else..
The sad fact is that today most of the heads of big businesses in America have become so confused or intimidated that, so far from carrying the free ….
The surest way for a poor nation to stay poor is to harass, hobble, and straitjacket private enterprise or to discourage or destroy it by subsidized ….
There can be little doubt that many egalitarians are motivated at least partly by envy..
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….
Bureaucrats denounce private enterprise for the consequences of their own reckless policies and demand still more governmental controls..
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….
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….
A hundred welfare programs, spending more and more billions, lead to chronic budget deficits, which lead to increased paper-money issues, which lead ….
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 ….
There is a profound contrast between the effects of foreign aid and of voluntary private investment: foreign aid goes from government to government.….
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….