Affair Quote by Herbert Hoover

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

In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through a process…

— Michael Parenti

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

— Daniel Webster

The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.

— L. Neil Smith

The most basic function of government is to provide a framework of law and order, within which the people are free to choose.

— Thomas Sowell

The corporate State considers that private enterprise in the sphere of production is the most effective and useful instrument in the interest of the…

— Benito Mussolini

If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part in the…

— Calvin Coolidge

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

— Murray Kempton

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

— John Jay Chapman

Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

We recognise the need for government to provide a clear and stable regulatory framework so as to release the investment power of business in…

— Barry Gardiner

We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.

— Paul Ryan