If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Private enterprise cannot rebuild the nation's infrastructure or keep our research institutions vibrant. Government must do what only it can do. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is not supposed to save jobs one by one. He's supposed to build a sound macro economy in which private… — David Frum Copy Share Image
I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The rationale for the vast network of government welfare programs as well as regulation and control over private enterprise is based on… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure.… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good.… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Bearing all this in mind, we see that there is no Russian national understanding which would permit the early establishment in Russia… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
A private enterprise system needs some measuring rod, it needs something, it needs money to make its transactions. You can't run a… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
'Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger, to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk.… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I can remember the time when, if we wanted a house or housing, we relied on private enterprise. In fact, Americans built… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The problem isn't that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It's that they have made… — Joe Conason Copy Share Image
Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Unlike private enterprise which quickly modifies its actions to meet emergencies - unlike the shopkeeper who promptly finds the wherewith to satisfy… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to… — John W. Davis Copy Share Image
Are not the worst examples of architecture to be found in private enterprise in cheap jerry-built homes? — Hugh Dalton Copy Share Image
When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. Isn't that exactly what's been… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish. — Bill Owens Copy Share Image
Bureaucrats denounce private enterprise for the consequences of their own reckless policies and demand still more governmental controls. — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit. — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them..and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Private enterprise in cricket might not be regarded as the last word, and ultimate state direction would not do it any harm. — Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell Copy Share Image
In actual fact, it is the State, i.e., the taxpayer who has become responsible to private enterprise. In Fascist Italy the State… — Gaetano Salvemini Copy Share Image
Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Experience shows that nothing is operated with less economy and with more waste of labor and material of every kind than public… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The diversity of institutions has made possible the combination of government ownership and private enterprise which has been a further characteristic of… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
What the carburetor, sparkplug and self-starter are to an automobile, initiative, private enterprise and executive ability are to industry as a whole,… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
Rather than being an impediment, NASA can and should be the driver of commerce, the provider of the technology necessary to make… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
It's private enterprise that can create jobs and fill them. It's business that can train people and make them productive tax-payers. And… — Bobby Kotick Copy Share Image