In the free economy, there can be no fixed number of jobs…

President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to…

— Mitt Romney

“Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion.”

— A.E. Samaan

“A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular…

— Milton Friedman

“Collectivists see the world the way Mr. Magoo did—as one big blur. They homogenize people in a communal blender, sacrificing the discrete features that…

— Lawrence W. Reed

“Individualists and collectivists both have been wronged by the government, and we all maintain (consciously or subconsciously) a list of the ways our lives…

— Mike Klepper

Collectivists would have you believe that individualism is merely another word for selfishness, because individualists oppose welfare and other forms of coercive redistribution of…

— G. Edward Griffin

“Collectivists begin by proclaiming a revolutionary principle - the abolition of private property - and then they deny it, no sooner than proclaimed, by…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal;…

— Ayn Rand

Collectivists are of the view that pluralism in provision should extend to charitable institutions but not private companies.

— Nick Boles

The anti-individualist enemies that Ayn Rand battled are still the enemy, but they've shifted their line of attack. Political collectivists are no longer much…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“But in a free enterprise economy, increased production increases the number of jobs. It might be said that one job creates another, which is…

— Isabel Paterson

“In arguing against free enterprise capitalism, the collectivist always adopts the false assumption of a fixed number of jobs in that system. Conversely, in…

— Isabel Paterson

“As a youth I enjoyed — indeed, like most of my contemporaries, revered — the agitprop plays of Brecht, and his indictments of Capitalism.…

— David Mamet

I believe in singing for my supper. I'll never accept a grant because what I do should be able to be founded purely on…

— Russell Crowe

Provided that societies stay mindful of the challenges that capitalism creates and never forget the paramount importance of inclusion and equal opportunity, we can…

— Dalai Lama