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Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
Henry Hazlitt • 26 highlights
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Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for.
Henry Hazlitt • Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, ... See more
As Frederic Bastiat put it, “The State is the great fictitious entity by which everyone expects to live at the expense of everyone else.”[8]
Harry Browne • How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World
Governments are subject to the same laws of economics as anyone else. The only “security” they offer is the promise to take care of you with other people’s money.