• There is a profound contrast between the effects of foreign aid and of voluntary private investment: foreign aid goes from government to government. It is therefore almost inevitably statist and socialistic.

    Henry Hazlitt: There is a profound contrast between the effects of foreign aid and of voluntary private investment:  foreign aid goes from government to government.  It is therefore almost inevitably statist and socialistic.
    Henry Hazlitt (1996). “The Conquest of Poverty”