...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice…

Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of…

— Ayn Rand

The nature of the economic system should be a matter for public choice, and free market capitalism should not be accepted without any discussion…

— Tony Benn

The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies…

— Thomas Sowell

The Second World War ended with a radicalization of the population in the United States and everywhere else, and called for all kinds of…

— Noam Chomsky

Where no man thinks himself under any obligation to submit to another, and, instead of co-operating in one great scheme, every one hastens through…

— Samuel Johnson

We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both…

— Anonymous

If one individual, or one class, can call in the aid of authority to ward off the effects of competition, it acquires a privilege…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

We've got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.

— Jane Fonda

For the corporation executives, the military metaphysic often coincides with their interest in a stable and planned flow of profit; it enables them to…

— C. Wright Mills

No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all…

— Carl L. Becker

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan's…

— Noam Chomsky

Procurement is a major technique of state subsidy.

— Noam Chomsky

In Europe there's an dangerous growth of ultra xenophobia which is pretty threatening to any one who remembers the history of Europe... and an…

— Noam Chomsky

There are no conservatives in the United States. The United States does not have a conservative tradition. The people who call themselves conservatives, like…

— Noam Chomsky