Able Quote by Bertrand Russell

The quickest and surest way to production, prosperity, and economic growth is through private enterprise. The best way for governments to encourage private enterprise…

— Henry Hazlitt

“To the Congress: Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people. The first truth is that…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.

— Anonymous

Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over any group…

— Arlo Guthrie

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate…

— Edward Bernays

The private sector enjoys tremendous freedom in the U.S, as it should. With freedom, however, comes responsibilities.

— Bernice King

Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or dispersion of…

— Milton Friedman

An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control,…

— Albert Einstein

“To the extent that the threats against which a given government protects its citizens are imaginary or are consequences of its own activities, the…

— Charles Tilly

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

— Cal Thomas

There is a system of terroristic states-the real terror network-that has spread throughout Latin America and elsewhere over the past several decades, and which…

— Edward S. Herman

Large government is inevitably inefficient, but so, too, is large private enterprise.

— Richard Cohen