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The More Things A Government Undertakes To Do, The Fewer Things It Can Do Completely. When The Government Tries To Do Everything It Must Do Everything Badly.

There Is A Strange Idea Aboard, Held By All Monetary Cranks, That Credit Is Something A Banker Gives To A Man. Credit, On The Contrary, Is Something A Man Already Has. He Has It, Perhaps, Because He Already Has Marketable Assets Of A Greater Cash Value Than The Loan For Which He Is Asking. Or He Has It Because His Character And Past Record Have Earned It. He Brings It Into The Bank With Him. That Is Why The Banker Makes Him The Loan.

When Any Welfare Scheme Is Being Proposed, Its Political Sponsors Always Dwell On What A Generous And Compassionate Government Should Pay To Paul; They Neglect To Mention That This Additional Money Must Be Seized From Peter.

Contrary To Age-old Prejudices, The Wealth Of The Rich Is Not The Cause Of The Poverty Of The Poor, But Helps To Alleviate That Poverty.

The Question Is Not Whether We Wish To See Everybody As Well Off As Possible. Among Men Of Good Will Such An Aim Can Be Taken For Granted. The Real Question Concerns The Proper Means Of Achieving It. And In Trying To Answer This We Must Never Lose Sight Of A Few Elementary Truisms. We Cannot Distribute More Wealth Than Is Created. We Cannot In The Long Run Pay Labor As A Whole More Than It Produces.