“Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.” — George will Copy Share Image
Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished. — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
I am opposed to all forms of control. I am for an absolute, laissez-faire, free, unregulated economy. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Poverty can be brought about by law; it cannot be forbidden by law.” — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration.” — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
[I am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I am now a fundamentalist American; give me time and I will tell you why individualism, laissez-faire and the slightly restrained anarchy… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.” — Gustave de Molinari Copy Share Image
“Global laissez-faire is not a conspiracy of corporate America. It is a tragedy - one of several that have occurred in the… — John Gray Copy Share Image
I'm pretty earthy; I nursed forever because I liked it and my kids liked it, but at the same time I'm very… — Ana Gasteyer Copy Share Image
Laissez Faire, laissez passer. Let it be, let it pass. The phrase is not readily translatable. It was widely used by the… — Francois Quesnay Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - view the role of… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Beautiful, seamless upgrade from Twitter today, making functionality smoother and cooler. We didn't have to lobby, didn't have to beg, didn't have… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Whats the biggest commercial for aggression, sexuality and materialism? What gets pumped into these kids heads? Taking someone elses girl, which is… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
“What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced society is not, strictly… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those of any historical or prehistorical tyranny. Socialism is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Radicals, on the other hand, want to advance from the jungle of laissez-faire capitalism to a world worthy of the name of… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
“It's WW2 and there are wage controls in place. Instead of health care, companies decide to offer employees shoes. Having absorbed those… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
“It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more sellers by means of… — George Reisman Copy Share Image
It would have been more to the point, more honest and more Christian, in past decades not to support those who intentionally… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“But who would build the roads if there were no government? You mean to tell me that 300 million people in this… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
Laissez-faire capitalism, or anarchocapitalism, is simply the economic form of the libertarian ethic. Laissez-faire capitalism encompasses the notion that men should exchange… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
“Property taxes' rank right up there with 'income taxes' in terms of immorality and destructiveness. Where 'income taxes' are simply slavery using… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
“In its study of the future of work, the laissez-faire Baker Institute admitted it had been ‘unable to find any solutions based… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
I've got some repenting to do. I doubt, however, that those who have wedded Christianity with laissez-faire capitalism will see things this… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The principle of laissez-faire may be safely trusted to in some things but in many more it is wholly inapplicable; and to… — John Ramsay McCulloch Copy Share Image
The scope of modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for its people has been widened far beyond the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
I'm fine with whatever comes my way, and whatever doesn't come my way I'm fine with too. I have a very laissez-faire… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude… — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image