Louis

“There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of economic salvation; and when anyone points to what the consequences of these policies will be in the long run, they reply flippantly, as might the prodigal son of a warning father: "In the long run we are all dead." And such shallow wisecracks pass as devastating epigrams and the ripest wisdom.”
― Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson

“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”
― George Orwell

“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.”
― henry hazlitt