“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose… — Nia Vardalos Copy Share Image
...whatever the self-righteous excesses of the environmentalist left, it is impossible to be true to traditional conservative values (to say nothing of… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Can social progress be made without government? It's like saying 'can happiness be achieved without the initiation of violence? Can romance be… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter's prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes' excellent little book,… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
“The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed,… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the basic principles of liberalism to make it a stationary creed; there are no hard-and-fast rules fixed once… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“It is easy to see, however,―as has been indicated more than once by anarchist writers, and lately by the French professor, V.… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“A great deal of the talk about laissez faire [in the nineteenth century] must be discounted, or at least put into its… — Vito Tanzi Copy Share Image
“As long as government has the power to regulate business, business will control government by funding the candidate that legislates in their… — Mary J. Ruwart Copy Share Image
“It was in the wake of these erosions of economic controls that intellectual challenges were then made to the role of government… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Political economy is the science of free society. Its theory and its history alike establish this position. Its fundamental maxims, Laissez-faire and… — George Fitzhugh Copy Share Image
“And so the catastrophe of 1929–33 did to the certainties of laissez-faire economics what science did to nineteenth-century religion and what the… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
The authority and influence of France on the world scene in the 21st century will not depend solely on its modernity and… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
I am opposed to all forms of control; I am for an absolute laissez faire, free, unregulated economy. I am for the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The Gilded Age robber barons - the Goulds, the Vanderbilts, the Morgans and Rockefellers - did quite well under laissez-faire. Most of… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Education in democracy must be carried on within the Party so that members can understand the meaning of democratic life, the meaning… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
To check centralization and usurping of power ... we require a new laissez-faire. The old laissez-faire was founded upon a misapprehension of… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. When I say 'capitalism,'… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course.… — Karl Polanyi Copy Share Image
“With the elimination of the Fairness Doctrine, a new American laissez-faire had been officially declared. If lots more incorrect and preposterous assertions… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image