There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“The old laissez faire failed because it was based on erroneous premises regarding human behavior. As a theory it failed because it… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
Radicals, on the other hand, want to advance from the jungle of laissez-faire capitalism to a world worthy of the name of… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The principle of laissez-faire may be safely trusted to in some things but in many more it is wholly inapplicable; and to… — John Ramsay McCulloch Copy Share Image
On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time… — Katrina vanden Heuvel Copy Share Image
Laissez Faire, laissez passer. Let it be, let it pass. The phrase is not readily translatable. It was widely used by the… — Francois Quesnay Copy Share Image
“There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those of any historical or prehistorical tyranny. Socialism is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. When I say 'capitalism,'… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital. — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
“But who would build the roads if there were no government? You mean to tell me that 300 million people in this… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Not only does the State do the work badly on a domain not its own, bunglingly, at greater cost, and with less… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I've learnt that from stand-up - you should always worry that it's going to go badly, otherwise you're too laissez faire. — Josh Widdicombe Copy Share Image
“In neo-classical economic theory, it is claimed without evidence that people are basically self-seeking, that they want above all the satisfaction of… — Carne Ross Copy Share Image
“A great deal of the talk about laissez faire [in the nineteenth century] must be discounted, or at least put into its… — Vito Tanzi Copy Share Image
There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course.… — Karl Polanyi Copy Share Image
Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“The criminal excesses of unlimited capitalistic liberty had soon been checked thanks to the unlimited liberty of the press.” — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“As long as government has the power to regulate business, business will control government by funding the candidate that legislates in their… — Mary J. Ruwart Copy Share Image
“It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Here we are, then, once more back at the old doctrine - Laissez faire. Let us translate it into blunt English, and… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“Poverty can be brought about by law; it cannot be forbidden by law.” — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
