Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.

The important thing is this: that, under such government recognition as we may give to that which is beneficent and wholesome in large business…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.

— Marco Rubio

It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, for the few, and to replace it…

— Hillary Clinton

State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved.…

— Benito Mussolini

This program could destroy private initiative for our aged to protect themselves with insurance against the cost of illness…Presently, over 60 percent of our…

— Milward L. Simpson

Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.

— Milton Friedman

We need new proactive policies that focus directly on how authorities in the public and private sphere can blend economic and social policies with…

— Juan Somavia

We are entering an era in which national government, instead of directing, enables powerful regional and local initiatives to work, where Britain becomes as…

— Gordon Brown

There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation…

— Susan Jacoby

I'm against unanswerable concentrations of power, whether that be government or private industry or religious figures - anybody who is not accountable to the…

— Daniel Suarez

I want to take initiative; I know my game and I know what I need to do to win.

— Frances Tiafoe

We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path…

— Yehudi Menuhin

The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others…

— Noam Chomsky

The vast majority of local people will neither know all of the initiatives nor have any perception that the individual elements are beginning to…

— Paul Burrell

Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,…

— Rajneesh