Henry Hazlitt Quotes

The capitalist system, in spite of all obstacles put in its way by governments and politicians, has raised the standard of living of the masses in an unprecedented way.

Capitalism - for the record - has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system in the world.

Capitalism is the engine that has grown economies.

There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way.

Free enterprise is the best economic system in the history of the world, because it is the only system where you can make poor people richer and you don't have to make rich people poor.

Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.

Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the latest demonstration, like a laboratory experiment for all to see. Yet those who are loudest in proclaiming their desire to eliminate poverty are loudest in denouncing capitalism. Man's well-being is not their goal.

Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no collectivist system has ever begun to equal, and no tribal gang can conceive of.

We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years.

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.

In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.

Capitalism without capital is just an ism.

Free enterprise is the only way for substantial growth.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

I've been dedicated to the proposition that there's been no greater wealth-creation system in the history of mankind than the American free-enterprise system.

I believe that capitalism is the one thing in this world that's brought people out of poverty.

I am pro-capitalism, and I am pro-free market.

In this country, we value our open, free-market system - including the way it attracts international investment and talent to our country.

The capitalist system has lifted mankind out of mass poverty. It is this system that in the last century, in the last generation, even in the last decade, has acceleratively been changing the face of the world, and has provided the masses of mankind with amenities that even kings did not possess or imagine a few generations ago.

Capitalism has improved the standard of living of the wage earners to an unprecedented extent. The average American family enjoys today amenities of which, only a hundred years ago, not even the richest nabobs dreamed.

Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it.

Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.