Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I get a bit of a kick out of exporting private enterprise and incentives.

— Fred L. Turner

I am all in favor of pay equity for women, but this kind of legislation, as is typical of what's being proposed by my…

— John McCain

Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Small and mid-sized companies in this country historically have been responsible for creating the overwhelming majority of new jobs in the private sector. One…

— Michael Milken

Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.

— Bill Owens

The corporate State considers that private enterprise in the sphere of production is the most effective and useful instrument in the interest of the…

— Benito Mussolini

As motherhood as a "private enterprise" declines and more mothers rely on the work of lower-paid specialists, the value accorded the work of mothering…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with no public…

— William Peter Hamilton

Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite an extreme…

— Benjamin Zablocki

The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported laisser faire,…

— Joan Robinson

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

— Bertrand Russell