“A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration.” — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Poverty can be brought about by law; it cannot be forbidden by law.” — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
I am opposed to all forms of control. I am for an absolute, laissez-faire, free, unregulated economy. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My parents couldn't be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished. — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
“Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.” — George will Copy Share Image
It was good fun being a pop singer. I had quite a laissez-faire attitude towards it which I think is why it… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude… — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose… — Nia Vardalos Copy Share Image
So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I'm fine with whatever comes my way, and whatever doesn't come my way I'm fine with too. I have a very laissez-faire… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
The scope of modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for its people has been widened far beyond the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Education in democracy must be carried on within the Party so that members can understand the meaning of democratic life, the meaning… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“With the elimination of the Fairness Doctrine, a new American laissez-faire had been officially declared. If lots more incorrect and preposterous assertions… — Kurt Andersen 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
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
To check centralization and usurping of power ... we require a new laissez-faire. The old laissez-faire was founded upon a misapprehension of… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Political economy is the science of free society. Its theory and its history alike establish this position. Its fundamental maxims, Laissez-faire and… — George Fitzhugh Copy Share Image
“It was in the wake of these erosions of economic controls that intellectual challenges were then made to the role of government… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“It is easy to see, however,―as has been indicated more than once by anarchist writers, and lately by the French professor, V.… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Property taxes' rank right up there with 'income taxes' in terms of immorality and destructiveness. Where 'income taxes' are simply slavery using… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
Laissez-faire capitalism, or anarchocapitalism, is simply the economic form of the libertarian ethic. Laissez-faire capitalism encompasses the notion that men should exchange… — Karl Hess 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
“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
“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
It would have been more to the point, more honest and more Christian, in past decades not to support those who intentionally… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“It's WW2 and there are wage controls in place. Instead of health care, companies decide to offer employees shoes. Having absorbed those… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others. — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
My parents couldnt be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
I'm very 'nothing-bothers-me,' laissez faire. Everything works for me. — Princess Nokia 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
When laissez-faire creates instability, the move to a freer market can be something less than pure gain. — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
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