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- The great danger to the consumer is the monopoly -whether private or governmental. His most effective protection is free competition at home and free trade…
- You will find that hardly a soul who will say that it was a bad thing. Almost everybody will say it was a good thing.…
- What's the difference? How can people be so inconsistent? Why is it that free immigration was a good thing before 1914 and free immigration is…
- Because it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have…
- If you have free immigration, in the way we had it before 1914, everybody benefited. The people who were here benefited. The people who came…
- But on the other hand, if you come under circumstances where each person is entitled to a pro-rata share of the pot, to take an…
- To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. He is proud of a…
- There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to evaluate new proposals…
- The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government official, a trade…
- What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to…
- The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country. He will ask rather…
- Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe…
- To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. ... He recognizes no national…
- So long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.
- I know of no example in time or place of a society that has been marked by a large measure of political freedom, and that…
- The free market is not only a more efficient decision maker than even the wisest central planning body, but even more important, the free market…
- The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a major catastrophe. Instead…
- You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
- The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet…
- So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the…
- There's no such thing as a free lunch.
- Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
- The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
- The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why…
- The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a…
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical. — Julian Assange
- They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of… — Chinua Achebe
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine