“The future of human liberty…means the future of civilization.” Henry Hazlitt
“The State, of course, is absolutely indispensable to the preservation of law and order, and the promotion of peace and social cooperation. What is unnecessary and evil, what abridges the liberty and therefore the true welfare of the individual, is the State that has usurped excessive powers and grown beyond its legitimate function.” Henry Hazlitt
“True adherents of liberty…[believe] in limited government, in the maximization of liberty for the individual and the minimization of the coercion to the lowest point compatible with law and order…we believe in free trade, free markets, free enterprise, private property.” Henry Hazlitt
“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 ‘private sector’ of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector…the ‘public sector’ is, in fact, the coercive sector.” Henry Hazlitt
“Capitalism, the system of private property and free markets, is not only a system of freedom and of natural justice—which tends…to distribute rewards in accordance with production—but it is a great co-operative and creative system that has produced…affluence that our ancestors did not dare dream of.” Henry Hazlitt
“The superior freedom of the capitalist system, its superior justice, and its superior productivity are not three superiorities, but one. The justice follows from the freedom and the productivity follows from the freedom and the justice.” Henry Hazlitt
“Government can’t give anything without depriving us of something else.” Henry Hazlitt
“When your money is taken by a thief, you get nothing in return. When your money is taken through taxes to support needless bureaucrats, precisely the same situation exists.” Henry Hazlitt
“Only if the modern state can be held within a strictly limited agenda…can it be prevented from regimenting, conquering, and ultimately devouring the society which gave it birth.” Henry Hazlitt
“Liberty is so precious an end in itself that Lord Acton was moved to declare that it is ‘not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.’ Yet though liberty is beyond doubt an end in itself, it is also of the highest value…as a means to most of our other ends. We can pursue not only our economic but our intellectual and spiritual goals only if we are free to do so.” Henry Hazlitt
“Moral rules which forbid mankind to hurt one another…include wrongful interference with each other’s freedom.” Henry Hazlitt
“Many of today’s writers who are most eloquent in their arguments for liberty in fact preach philosophies that would destroy it.” Henry Hazlitt
“In a thousand fields the welfarists, statists, socialists, and inverventionists are daily driving for more restrictions on individual liberty.” Henry Hazlitt
“The solution to our problems is not more paternalism, laws, decrees, or controls, but the restoration of liberty and free enterprise.” Henry Hazlitt
“The crying need today is not for more laws, but for fewer. If the friends of liberty and law could have only one slogan it should be: Stop the remedies!” Henry Hazlitt
“Our intelligentsia….misprize economic liberty because…they lack the knowledge or understanding to recognize that when economic liberties are abridged or destroyed, all other liberties are abridged or destroyed with them.” Henry Hazlitt
“Liberty is a whole, and to deny economic liberty is finally to destroy all liberty.” Henry Hazlitt
“When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.’ It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government.” Henry Hazlitt
