Free Market Quotes

211 Free Market quotes by 150 unique authors

A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's called bankruptcy. It doesn't mean,… — Michele Bachmann
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free… — Bono
Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities. — Harry Browne
I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system. — George W. Bush
In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to talk about 'free… — Hugo Chavez
Most of us at the Reserve Bank come from a background in economics and hence have a predisposition in favour of free markets and a… — Ian Macfarlane
The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are not the outcome… — Ludwig von Mises
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Libertarians are squarely in… — Murray Rothbard
Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through… — Murray Rothbard
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy. — Ludwig von Mises
The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it. — Harry Browne
When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame. — Jack Kemp
It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible. — Ayn Rand
Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that intervention… — Howard Zinn
The Western societies which espouse free market capitalism survive by the pursuit of greed and, in their own way, like Communism, throw into leadership men… — Davis McCaughey
Under the rule of the "free market" ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis without an effective energy policy. Because of… — Wendell Berry
I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label. I… — George Carlin
It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns to avoid facing… — Murray Rothbard
Obama is already setting a new historic course by reorienting the economy from private consumption to public investments...free-market pundits bemoan the evident intention of Obama… — Jeffrey Sachs
The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about the concept of… — Vaclav Klaus
Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice… — Pope Francis
It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources… — Pope John Paul II
There is no free market for oil. — T. Boone Pickens
Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the… — Arthur C. Brooks

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