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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.
We who live in free market societies believe that growth and prosperity, and ultimately human fulfillment are created from the bottom up, not the government down.
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
The theory of the determination of wages in a free market is simply a special case of the general theory of value. Wages are the price of labour.
It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.
Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.
I support freedom and I support a free market economy, but it should be a socially oriented market economy. I support globalization, but it should be globalization with a human face.
Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense of duty and morality, are tragically mistaken.
The broader and more influential organisations of businessmen have acted to undermine the basic foundation of the free market system they purport to represent and defend.
The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.
You show me a polluter, I'll show you a subsidy. I'll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the discipline of the free market and force the public to pay his production costs.
We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down.
The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there is nothing in the mall and if you don't go there they shoot you.
We know that government intervention in the free market, and Argentine history has shown this, absolutely ends in a boomerang.
Free market capitalism has done more for the soul of the human race than any other system. And it's created the highest standard of living.
The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.
The whole world is an open, free market. No state can exist without the others.
Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.
Contrary to the vision of the left, it was the free market which produced affordable housing - before government intervention made housing unaffordable.
The policy of letting the free market determine the height of wage rates is the only reasonable and successful full-employment policy.
I don't even consider myself an environmentalist anymore. I'm a free-marketer. I go out into the marketplace and I catch the polluters who are cheating the free market.
As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.
A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.
People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.
The argument for the free market is a complicated and sophisticated one and depends on demonstration of secondary effects. I have confidence market efficiency will win out.
Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market.
I'm a free market person, a free trader. But if we had a market in California, there would be competition.
The costs of government are bound to be much higher than those of the free market. . .The State cannot calculate well and therefore cannot gauge its costs accurately.
The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.