Free Enterprise Quotes
101 quotes by 73 authors
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A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.
— Edward Abbey
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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we…
— Hannah Arendt
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Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown…
— Ludwig von Mises
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A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and road capacity.
— Andrew Joseph Galambos
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Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix it." Yet ...…
— Lawrence Fertig
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It's a slow process, but it is scary, because if someone can control your energy sources, they can control you. We are already being told…
— Mike Thompson
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A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically, the mood of…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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A genuine free enterprise system, without state-enforced artificial scarcities, artificial property rights or subsidies, would be like dynamite at the foundations of corporate power.
— Kevin Carson
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If you want to get rich with a tax free enterprise that sells nothing, start a church.
— Bill Maher
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I realize that Kenya and America are very different, but experiences like this warned me that my own favorite beliefs in the miracles of free…
— Chris Coons
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Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.
— Ishmael Reed
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One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in…
— William O. Douglas
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The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.
— George Lois
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Competition is the hallmark of a free enterprise economy. For the past thirty years, however, corporate America has been doing everything it can to cut…
— Lou Dobbs
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Of course I believe in free enterprise but in my system of free enterprise, the democratic principle is that there never was, never has been,…
— Harry S. Truman
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Over the last 25 years, the American free enterprise system created the most diverse video programming on earth with the best value for the customer.…
— Kyle E. McSlarrow
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The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead…
— Gerry Spence
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There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.
— Jim McDermott
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The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.... They cultivate hate and distrust of both Britain and Russia.…
— Henry A. Wallace
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