A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious … - Henry Hazlitt

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U. S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual.

Henry Hazlitt

A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.

Distinctions, Men, Nuances, Thinking, Vocabulary, Words

Same Author Quotes

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.

Capitalism, Extent, Increasingly, Mass, Poverty

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.

Government, Keeping, Pumps, System, Way

Once the idea is accepted that money is something whose supply is determined simply by the printing press, it becomes impossible for the politicians in power to resist the constant demands for further inflation.

Accepted, Demand, Determined, Idea, Ideas, Resist

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.

Order, Law, Justice, Fraud, State

The solution to our problems is not more paternalism, laws, decrees, and controls, but the restoration of liberty and free enterprise, the restoration of incentives, to let loose the tremendous constructive energies of 300 million Americans.

Law, Liberty, Energy, 300, Million, Solution