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What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.

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If precious metals had been abundant, they would not have been precious.

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

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

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Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore.

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

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There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.

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The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.

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The tendency of welfare spending in the United States has been to increase at an exponential rate.

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

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Need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power.

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In order that one industry might grow or come into existence, a hundred other industries would have to shrink.

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

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In brief, on net balance, machines, technological improvements, economies and efficiency do not throw men out of work.

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The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.

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Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.

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In a thousand fields the welfarists, statists, socialists, and interventionists are daily driving for more restrictions on individual liberty.

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Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

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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.

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The only way government bureaucrats know of keeping prosperity going is to inflate some more - to increase the deficit or to pump more money into the system.

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The more things a government undertakes to do, the fewer things it can do completely. When the government tries to do everything it must do everything badly.

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When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.

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A certain amount of taxes is of course indispensable to carry on essential government functions. Reasonable taxes for this purpose need not hurt production much.

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

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The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft, and fraud.

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To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano.

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Libertarians are learning to their sorrow that big businessmen cannot necessarily be relied upon to be their allies in the battle against extension of governmental encroachments.

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Would-be income guarantors ignore or despise the capitalistic system that makes their dreams dreamable and gives their redistribute-the-income proposals whatever plausibility they have.

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If there is to be no loss whatever of dignity or self-respect in getting and staying on relief, then there can be no gain in dignity or self-respect in makings some sacrifices to keep off.

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Economic progress and justice do not consist in superbly equalized destitution, but in the constant creation of more and more goods and services, of more and more wealth and income to be shared.

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