Activity Quote by David D. Aitken

Capitalism is the best way of organizing economic activity for a lot of reasons. It unlocks a higher fraction of human potential, it balances…

— Al Gore

Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity.

— Eugene Fama

“Not only does the State do the work badly on a domain not its own, bunglingly, at greater cost, and with less fruit than…

— Hippolyte Taine

“A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. A…

— Henry Steele Commager

“So identified has the State become in the public mind with the provision of these services that an attack on State financing appears to…

— Murray N. Rothbard

The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their…

— Milton Friedman

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

— Hilaire Belloc

A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex…

— George Will

Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct…

— Leonard Read

Interest rates are going to go up because employment is going to go up. If employment goes up, then our apartments get filled. And…

— Sam Zell

Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few…

— John F. Kennedy