Free enterprise Quotes

The free enterprise system has not failed; the financial system has failed.

— Tony Blair

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I believe that without free enterprise there can be no democracy.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

All I know is that D'Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.

— Jesse Helms

“The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion.”

— Allan Lokos

President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial.

— Mitt Romney

Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.

— Ishmael Reed

Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility--the American Dream.

— Mason Cooley

I've been dedicated to the proposition that there's been no greater wealth-creation system in the history of mankind than the American free-enterprise…

— Jeb Hensarling

Restricting the religious impulses of Americans is precisely like killing free enterprise with too many regulations.

— Eric Metaxas

“Gore Vidal, the American writer, once famously described the American economic system as ‘free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the…

— Ha-Joon Chang

American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the…

— Thomas Sowell

Obamacare is a perfect tool to crush free enterprise and force all Americans into a socialist health care system.

— Marlin Stutzman

Ours is a great nation, built upon both free enterprise and the free exercise of basic democratic rights.

— Raphael Warnock

I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for it.

— Vince Flynn

A virtue of the free enterprise system is that it offers every individual the greatest opportunity for self expression.

— Lawrence Fertig

With his economic speeches in response to Obama's 'you didn't build that' fiasco, Romney proved that he does have fire in his…

— David Limbaugh

“Nw a kind of no-man's-land occupied by a neo-Elizabethan hugger-mugger of racketeers, drug dealers, gangsters and abortionists, the shark-toothed area seemed only…

— Pico Iyer

To accept capitalism and Free Enterprise as articles of faith without agreeing that we must be free to consider whether what is…

— Gerry Spence

By killing transparency and competition, crony capitalism is harmful to free enterprise, opportunity, and economic growth. And by substituting special interests for…

— Raghuram Rajan

I think I'm basically a liberal Conservative - I believe in low tax, spirit of free enterprise, and in making sure that…

— Boris Johnson

Britain is the ideas factory of the world and has huge potential to benefit from the next technological revolution. Our future lies…

— Liz Truss

The Jacksonians were libertarians, plain and simple. Their program and ideology were libertarian; they strongly favored free enterprise and free markets, but…

— Murray Rothbard

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

— Isabel Paterson

Let the rabbit of free enterprise out of its velveteen bag and too many people would have to be fired, too much…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Most companies want free enterprise in general because that produces better goods and services and makes people's lives better, but they don't…

— Charles Koch

This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the…

— John McCain

He thus reaps the full fruits which result from his toil and labors with the incentive of free enterprise to maximize his…

— Douglas MacArthur

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and…

— Hannah Arendt

We very much hope that as we get growth that we can reduce the burden of taxation, that we can reduce income…

— Margaret Thatcher

The widespread distribution of private property ownership is the cornerstone of American liberty. Without it neither our free enterprise system nor our…

— Jeffrey H Reiman

This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the…

— John McCain

“That we can prescribe the terms of our own success, that we can live outside or in ignorance of the Great Economy…

— Wendell Berry

“That tradition is the way our culture gets made. As I explain in the pages that follow, we come from a tradition…

— Lawrence Lessig

“the immigrants who secure rights thanks to the anti-racist anti-colonial struggle might be securing the right to free capitalist enterprise, refusing to…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Ever since 1945 the federal government has held and indeed increased its importance as the first customer of the American economy. Government…

— John Morris Roberts

“Peacekeeping is a soldier-intensive business in which the quality of troops matters as much as the quantity. It is not just soldiering…

— Larry Wentz

“There are members of our body politic who tell us that the public interest is best served when government action is reduced…

— Alexander Meiklejohn

“People who live at subsistence level want first things to be put first. They are not particularly interested in freedom of religion,…

— Sebastian Marshall

“Most televangelists, popular Christian preacher icons, and heads of those corporations that we call megachurches share an unreflective modern view of Jesus--that…

— Bart D. Ehrman