Bureaucrats denounce private enterprise for the…

Politicians, bureaucrats, editors, new commentators, 'economists' teachers,' and other word artists who denounce private enterprise and praise socialism are their own worst enemies...these attackers…

— Leonard Read

The quickest and surest way to production, prosperity, and economic growth is through private enterprise. The best way for governments to encourage private enterprise…

— Henry Hazlitt

The surest way for a poor nation to stay poor is to harass, hobble, and straitjacket private enterprise or to discourage or destroy it…

— Henry Hazlitt

We are so accustomed to the miracle of private enterprise that we habitually take it for granted. But how does private industry solve the…

— Henry Hazlitt

Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure. Voluntary private…

— Henry Hazlitt

Government-to-government aid rests on socialistic assumptions and promotes socialism and stagnation, whereas private foreign investment rest on capitalist assumptions and promotes private enterprise and…

— Henry Hazlitt

Some champions of ever-greater governmental power and spending invent the theory that the taxpayers, left to themselves, spend the money they have earned very…

— Henry Hazlitt

When your money is taken by a thief, you get nothing in return. When your money is taken through taxes to support needless bureaucrats,…

— Henry Hazlitt

The proposal is frequently made that the government ought to assume the risks that are "too great for private industry." This means that bureaucrats…

— Henry Hazlitt

When each of us is free to work out his own economic destiny, within the framework of the market economy, the institution of private…

— Henry Hazlitt

The only way government bureaucrats know of keeping prosperity going is to inflate some more - to increase the deficit or to pump more…

— Henry Hazlitt

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

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

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

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

— Bertrand Russell