Henry Hazlitt Quotes

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

- Henry Hazlitt

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.

- Henry Hazlitt

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

- Henry Hazlitt

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

- Henry Hazlitt

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

- Henry Hazlitt