Free Enterprise Quotes - Page 7

• All I know is that D'Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.

  Jesse Helms

  Religious, Men, Enterprise

  Jesse Helms (1984). “"A Lot of Human Beings Have Been Born Bums": 20 Years of the Words of Senator No”, Carolina Indepnt Publication Corporation

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• Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.

  Peter Drucker

  Justified, Be Good, Enterprise

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.29, Routledge

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• Business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the
  chief sources of danger....Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. We have to have that tariff to protect us against competition from abroad. We have to have that special provision in the tax code. We have to have that subsidy.

  Milton Friedman

  Competition, Special, Different

  "Defaming Milton Friedman" by Johan Norberg, reason.com. October 2008.

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• The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government official, a trade union official, or a business executive. If forces them to put up or shut up. They either have to deliver the goods, produce something that people are willing to pay for, are willing to buy, or else they have to go into a different business.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, People, Different

  "The Tyranny of Control". PBS "Free to Choose", episode 2, 1980.

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• The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.... They cultivate hate and distrust of both Britain and Russia. They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power, so that using the power of the State and the power of the market simultaneously they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Hate, Men, Russia

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• I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.

  Richard Lugar

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Law

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• There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.

  Jim McDermott

  Compassion, Enterprise

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• There isn’t a person at the Koch brothers events who would not get a good return on their investment by investing in [Santorum] as president, because of what they believe about the free enterprise system.

  Foster Friess

  Brother, Believe, President

  "Super PACs echo parodies" by Kenneth P. Vogel, www.politico.com. February 13, 2012.

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• If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.

  George Nethercutt

  Guarantees That, Rights, Justice

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• President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial.

  Mitt Romney

  President, Trials, Want

  Mitt Romney's primary speech in New Hampshire, www.washingtonpost.com. January 10, 2012.

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• There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.

  George Ayittey

  Enterprise, Trade, Free Trade

  "Wide Angle" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. July 26, 2005.

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• I believe that there are barriers, educational barriers, cultural barriers, societal barriers, that are keeping people from accessing the promise of a vibrant free enterprise economy.

  Marco Rubio

  Educational, Believe, People

  "Closing the Gap: Sen. Marco Rubio on how more education, fewer broken families can change income inequality". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. February 13, 2014.

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• Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix it." Yet ... every time the government uses its money or its power to favor this group or that ... the net result is such a web of supports, subsidies, interventions and controls that it is almost impossible for a nation to find its way back into a dynamic system of really free enterprise.

  Lawrence Fertig

  Government, People, Support

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• Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Business, Profound, Competition

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• This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the old Soviet Union. This is what investors do in free enterprise and capitalism system. [...[ And, yes, free enterprise system can be cruel. But the problem with this administration is that small businesses are the one who had suffered the most, the kind that need investors, the kinds that don't need the hundreds of pages, thousands of pages of regulations that continue to plague them and have them hold back on the hiring investment.

  John McCain

  Needs, World, Unions

  "Sen. McCain talks Syria, Iran and tensions with Pakistan; Cardinal Wuerl on Catholic institutions vs. Obama administration". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 27, 2012.

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