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The First (lesson) Which We Meet Again And Again In History, Is That Once The Dole Or Similar Relief Programs Are Introduced, They Seem Almost Inevitably - Unless Surrounded By The Most Rigid Restrictions - To Get Out Of Hand. The Second Lesson Is That Once This Happens The Poor Become More Numerous And Worse Off Than They Were Before, Not Only Because They Have Lost Self-reliance, But Because The Sources Of Wealth And Production On Which They Depend For Either Doles Or Jobs Are Diminished Or Destroyed.

It Is Often Sadly Remarked That The Bad Economists Present Their Errors To The Public Better Than The Good Economists Present Their Truths. It Is Often Complained That Demagogues Can Be More Plausible In Putting Forward Economic Nonsense From The Platform Than The Honest Men Who Try To Show What Is Wrong With It.

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.

The Envious Are More Likely To Be Mollified By Seeing Others Deprived Of Some Advantage Than By Gaining It For Themselves. It Is Not What They Lack That Chiefly Troubles Them, But What Others Have.

The State, Of Course, Is Absolutely Indispensable To The Preservation Of Law And Order, And The Promotion Of Peace And Social Cooperation. What Is Unnecessary And Evil, What Abridges The Liberty And Threatens The True Welfare Of The Individual, Is The State That Has Usurped Excessive Powers And Grown Beyond Its Legitimate Function - The Super-state, The Socialist State, The Redistributive State, In Brief, The Ironically Misnamed 'welfare State.'