When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.’ It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government.

Henry Stuart Hazlitt (November 28 1894 – July 9 1993) was an American economist philosopher literary critic and journalist for such publications as The Wall Street Journal The Nation The American Mercury Newsweek and The New York Times and he has been recognized as a leading interpreter of economic issues from the perspective of American conservatism and libertarianism.