Free Enterprise Quotes - Page 2

• Governments never supply prosperity.  At best, they can facilitate it, by allowing the free enterprise system to work.  Usually they
  suppress it.

  Randy Gage

  Government, Prosperity, Enterprise

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• Conservatism has always meant more to me than simply sticking up for private property & free enterprise. It has also meant defending our heritage & preserving our values.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Heritage, Enterprise, Conservatism

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• The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.

  James Cook

  Government, Media, Merit

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• When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

  Hannah Arendt

  Country, Freedom, Blessing

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• Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full government control of every sphere of the individuals life and the unrestricted supremacy of the government in its capacity as central board of production management.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Government, Political

  Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

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• Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Fighting, Men, Hands

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• The devaluation of words and promises regarding free enterprise is, in principle, worse than the devaluation of the rouble

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Promise, Principles, Enterprise

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• Primaries are a family fight. I'm a pro-free enterprise, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life Republican.

  Heather Wilson

  Fighting, Pro Life, Second Amendment

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• You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.

  Milton Friedman

  Enterprise

  Milton Friedman - Big Business, Big Government, www.youtube.com. September 14, 2012.

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• Of course I believe in free enterprise but in my system of free enterprise, the democratic principle is that there never was, never has been, never will be, room for the ruthless exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few.

  Harry S. Truman

  Believe, Political, Principles

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• We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order.

  Adolf Hitler

  Order, Tyrants, Maintenance

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• Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.

  Reince Priebus

  Strong, Opportunity, Government

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• ...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention in the economy to maintain a welfare state for the rich.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Practice, Political

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.64, Soft Skull Press

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• The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a major catastrophe. Instead of using its powers to offset the depression, it presided over a decline in the quantity of money by one-third from 1929 to 1933 ... Far from the depression being a failure of the free-enterprise system, it was a tragic failure of government.

  Milton Friedman

  Garden, Government, Investing

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• The Family of Man is more than 3 billion strong. It lives in more than 100 nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise or due process of law or the Australian ballot.

  John F. Kennedy

  Christian, Strong, Men

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963".

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• Free enterprise means that the more enterprising you are, the freer you are.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Mean, Enterprise, Enterprising

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• The way to maximize production is to maximize the incentives to production. And the way to do that, as the modern world has discovered, is through the system known as capitalism - the system of private property, free markets, and free enterprise.

  Henry Hazlitt

  World, Incentives, Way

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.95, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• However, however, if the goal is to abandon America's free enterprise economy, if the goal is to convert America into a submissive member of the international community, if the goal is not to fix America, but to change America, then they want leaders that are going to come up here and fight it every step of the way.

  Marco Rubio

  Fighting, America, Goal

  Marco Rubio's keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

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• The widespread distribution of private property ownership is the cornerstone of American liberty. Without it neither our free enterprise system nor our republican form of government could long endure.... The next Republican Administration will...not only protect the cherished human right of property ownership, but will also work to help millions of Americans - particularly those from disadvantaged groups - to share in the ownership of the wealth of their nation.

  Jeffrey H Reiman

  Wisdom, Government, Long

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• From my perspective, what I'm really focused on, is making sure that, for the broadest number of Americans possible, limited government and free enterprise, the principles that have truly helped build our country into an exceptional one, is one that is being sold to and appeals to the broadest number of Americans.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Government, Numbers

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We hold that the ownership of private property is the right and privilege of every American citizen and is one of the foundation stones upon which this nation and its free enterprise system has been built and has prospered. We feel that private property rights and human rights are inseparable and indivisible. Only in those nations that guarantee the right of ownership of private property as basic and sacred under their law is there any recognition of human rights.

  John Rarick

  Wisdom, Rights, Law

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• Most companies want free enterprise in general because that produces better goods and services and makes people's lives better, but they don't want it in their business. They want protection from competition, they want subsidies, they want the government to pick winners and losers, and they want to be picked as winners, and that's what we're opposing, and that's what drives my whole efforts in policy, and in the political arena.

  Charles Koch

  Government, People, Effort

  "Full interview: Charles Koch". "Corner Office" with Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. October 21, 2015.

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• I heard Nixon speak. He was talking about free enterprise, getting the government off your back, lowering the taxes and strengthening the military. Listening to Nixon speak sounded more like a breath of fresh air. I said to my friend, I said, "What party is he?" My friend said, "He's a Republican." I said, "Then I am a Republican."

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Military, Party, Government

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The characteristic mark of this age of dictators, wars and revolutions is its anticapitalistic bias. Most governments and political parties were eager to restrict the sphere of private initiative and free enterprise.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Party, Government

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.480, VM eBooks

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• Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Games, Hell

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