Free Market Quotes
When people criticize the free market, they are usually complaining about what happens when you intervene in the free market.
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
I do understand the free market, having my economics degree, and if someone on the right had some good ideas, I'm not so dogmatic that I wouldn't listen to them.
With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.
True, the free market ignores the poor precisely as it does not recognize the wealthy - it is 'no respecter of persons'
Free markets are based on the free circulation of labor. If you don't have free circulation of labor, you don't have free markets.
Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.
Our sense of the free market is variable, shifting from a more welfare-oriented model after the Great Depression to a capital-driven market after the collapse of socialism as a viable alternative.
What polluters do is raise the standards of living for themselves, while lowering the quality of living for everybody else, and they do that by escaping the disciplines of the free market.
In a true free market economy, you can't make yourself rich without enriching your community.
Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the end of welfare and affirmative action.
What I am endeavoring to do is simply speak the truth, speak common-sense values, free market principles and the Constitution. For every question, the Constitution is my touchstone.
We need a consistent conservative, someone who has stood for free market principles, who has stood for the Constitution and, critically, who stood for the working men and women of this country.
The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations, The more thieves and robbers.
I wanta buy stuff. Stuff I don't need... Stuff settin' out there, you jus' feel like buyin' it whether you need it or not.-Uncle John
Arguing that the only problem with a free market is lack of competition, is like arguing that that the only problem with prostitution is that there aren't enough pimps.
The U.S. didn't achieve its liberty or prosperity by mistake. It was by design, and the architects were the Founding Fathers. Don't mess with the Constitution. The Constitution matters.
Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is a symptom of freedom. It is the result of individual rights, which include property rights.
Capitalists grow wealth. Socialists redistribute wealth.... but population grows, so the Socialist population control kicks in in the form of eugenics.
, I believe in some type of free market system. I just don’t think you’ll find an example of one completely free from government intervention.
Countries adopting free-market capitalism have increased output 70-fold, halved work days and doubled lifespans.
No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens.
Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.
Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government.
Health care and education are too important NOT to be left to the free market.
Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad.
Funny, I don't particularly care for either "laws" or "order". Liberty is messy. Freedom yields imperfect results.
Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.
Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.
Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.
No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.
A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to death of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.
People used to make money, but somewhere along the way, it started making us.
The IPL, involving the socialist principle of a salary cap and the protectionist mechanism of quotas, is not perhaps the best example of a market left flourishingly to its own devices and dynamics.