A Quote by Henry Hazlitt

Government welfarism, with its ever-increasing army of pensioners and other beneficiaries, is fatally easy to launch and fatally easy to extend, but almost impossible to bring to a halt - and quite impossible politically to reverse, no matter how obvious and catastrophic its consequences become.

Henry Hazlitt

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Henry Hazlitt
American - Philosopher
November 28, 1894 - July 9, 1993

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In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

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T. H. White

Domestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary; but yet it is not easy to avoid.

Samuel Johnson

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C. S. Lewis

We're stuck in the concrete age. Concrete has really become this ever-present material that's almost impossible to get away from. It's cheap, abundant, and easy to work with, and to an extent, that's good.

Magnus Larsson

You have to chase your dreams, no matter what. The impossible just takes a little longer. One stroke at a time, one step at a time, the impossible is easy to achieve.

Tori Murden

It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.

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It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

C. S. Lewis

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