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The more the state “plans” the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.
Friedrich Hayek1899–1992The Road to Serfdom (1944), Chapter 6: Planning and the Rule of Law
- Economics
- Government
I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it.
Friedrich Hayek1899–1992Nobel Banquet Speech (1974)
- Economics
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
Friedrich Hayek1899–1992The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (1988), Ch. 5: The Fatal Conceit.
- Economics
- Knowledge
Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers.
Rutherford B. Hayes1822–1893Diary (16 February 1890)
- Economics
- Money
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
Rutherford B. Hayes1822–1893Diary (12 December 1890)
- Economics
- Money
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Rutherford B. Hayes1822–1893Letter “to a leading editor” (10 April 1875), as quoted in The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes (1876) edited by James Quay Howard, ch. X, p. 144
I am no politician, and still less can I be said to be a party-man: I have a hatred of tyranny, and a contempt for its tools; and this feeling I have expressed as often and as strongly as I could.
William Hazlitt1778–1830Political Essays (1819), Preface
- Freedom
As for libertarian, I’ve been one all my life, a radical one. You might use the term “philosophical anarchist” or “autarchist” about me, but “libertarian” is easier to define and fits well enough.
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Statement to Judith Merril (1975), as quoted in William H. Patterson Jr., Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Vol. 2 (2014)
- Liberty
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Notes on the Next War (1935)
- Economics
- War & Peace
Political correctness is tyranny with manners.
Charlton Heston1923–2008Speech at the Harvard Law School (1999), as quoted in “Appreciation: Charlton Heston” in Time magazine (April 6, 2008)
- Clever Jabs
Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas.
Christopher Hitchens1949–2011The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain’s Favourite Fetish
- Religion
The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
Christopher Hitchens1949–2011“Ireland” (1998).
- Religion
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different
opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
Adolf Hitler1889–1945
Socialism is the science of dealing with the common weal. Communism is not Socialism. Marxism is not Socialism.
Adolf Hitler1889–1945Interview with George Sylvester Viereck, Liberty magazine (9 July 1932)
In our movement the two extremes come together: the Communists from the Left and the officers and students from the Right.
Adolf Hitler1889–1945As quoted in Konrad Heiden, Der Fuehrer: Hitler’s Rise to Power (1944)