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The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

— Ayn Rand

The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts.

— Robert Reich

Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Competition exists everywhere.

— Raashi Khanna

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

— Herbert Hoover

It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of…

— Lyman Abbott

Market competition is the only form of organization which can afford a large measure of freedom to the individual.

— Frank Knight

Together, we discovered that a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play.

— Barack Obama

While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of…

— Andrew Carnegie

For the exploitation of human greed, they have devised comparison and competition. Right from childhood on, we are indoctrinated to compare and compete, and…

— Lobsang Tenzin

It [the free market] is an organizational way of doing things, featuring openness, which enables millions of people to cooperate and compete without demanding…

— Leonard Read

Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often brutal.

— Andy Grove