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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.

— Ayn Rand

“Markets are free when human beings have equal opportunities to influence the production and trade of desirable goods and services... Some people attain market…

— Martin Adams

The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression.

— Thomas Jefferson

While control is needed, and perfectly warranted, our bias should be clear up front: Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should be permitted…

— Lawrence Lessig

“Free markets are necessary to promote long-term growth, but they are not self-regulating, particularly when it comes to banks and other large financial institutions.”

— Francis Fukuyama

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so…

— Jane Smiley

“Any time people create a "black market" to avoid government regulation, they are engaged in, and promoting, free market economics.”

— Dave Champion

We want a free market, but we know that the paradox of a 'free' market is that sometimes you have to intervene. You have…

— Margrethe Vestager

We've seen the government give out subsidies to companies, those companies turn around and use it for executive bonuses.

— Andrew Scheer

That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we…

— Vaclav Klaus

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic…

— Henry A. Wallace

I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that…

— Alan Greenspan