Common Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

So long as millions of human beings in every country has to sell their labour-power to a small minority of owners, and to sink…

— Rudolf Rocker

“Human beings need land even more so than they need money; the monopoly of land - not the monopoly of money - is the…

— Martin Adams

Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

— Thomas Jefferson

Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a country, or…

— James F. Cooper

“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society…

— Andrew Jackson

The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is…

— George Bernard Shaw

Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.

— John Dickinson

Our freedom of choice in a competitive society rests on the fact that, if one person refuses to satisfy our wishes, we can turn…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of…

— Adam Smith

Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest.

— Alfred Kahn

The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of…

— Woodrow Wilson

I lay this down as a fundamental proposition, which I do not think will be denied, that whoever controls the taxation and trade policy…

— George William Russell