Free Market Quotes - Page 16

• It should be noted that people in the free market rarely bear false witness; integrity is the rule. The morning mile, phone calls, planes the airlines buy, autos by the millions - no one could list the instances - are as represented. We have daily, eloquent, enormous testimony that the Ten Commandments can be and are observed by fallible human beings. Contemporary politics is the most glaring of all exceptions.

  Leonard Read

  Morning, Integrity, Phones

  "The Complete Works of Leonard E. Read". 1976.

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• The way to get a maximum rate of 'economic growth' assuming this to be our aim - is to give maximum encouragement to production, employment, saving, and investment. And the way to do this is to maintain a free market and a sound currency.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Encouragement, Giving, Growth

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.135, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• All the evils, abuses, and iniquities, popularly ascribed to businessmen and to capitalism, were not caused by an unregulated economy or by a free market, but by government intervention into the economy.

  Ayn Rand

  Government, Evil, Abuse

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.45, Penguin

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• The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and selling to high-wage democracies. Indeed, the striking quality about global enterprises is how easily free-market capitalism puts aside its supposed values in order to do business. The conditions of human freedom do not matter to them so long as the market demand is robust. The absence of freedom, if anything, lends order and efficiency to their operations.

  William Greider

  Order, Long, Democracy

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• I've been regulated my whole life. We have progressive taxes. It's not a free-market free-for-all. I completely understand that society has a perfectly legitimate right to put in structures and regulations and rules that make it fairer, better, cleaner.

  Jamie Dimon

  Regulation, Progressive, Structure

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

  Robert Kennedy

  Government, Capitalism, Corporate

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• A free market was never meant to be a free licence to take whatever you can get, however you can get it.

  Barack Obama

  Meant To Be

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• The free market opens the way for men to operate at their moral best, and all observation confirms that the poor fare better under these circumstances than when the way is closed, as it is under socialism.

  Leonard Read

  Men, Way, Moral

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• The free market is constantly under attack from those who believe that they know how to make the world a better place with properly administered doses of state coercion.

  George Leef

  Believe, World, Coercion

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• Nations that embrace the free market to the greatest extent prosper the most.

  James Cook

  Embrace, Nations

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• 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.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Support, Faces, Globalization

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• True, the free market ignores the poor precisely as it does not recognize the wealthy - it is 'no respecter of persons'

  Leonard Read

  Doe, Poor, Wealthy

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• We cannot have a free market since it does not really set us free. It's free for interest, speculation and consumerism to create false needs.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Doe, Needs, Consumerism

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.

  Ted Cruz

  Foundation, Sound, Constitution

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• The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.

  Tammy Bruce

  Independent, United States, Spirit

  "Tuesday's Tea Party revolution". www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2010.

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• As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job.

  Lucy Powell

  Jobs, Government, Tough Questions

  "Labour is back on the attack" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2008.

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• In the past six months, our federal government has devised a dozen strategies to save America's financial markets. Each plan has been more costly, more risky, and less aligned with the principles of our country's free market economy than the last. I am disappointed to say that this latest plan puts all the rest of them to shame.

  Michael Enzi

  Country, Business, Past

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• The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.

  Condoleezza Rice

  War, Support, Balance

  "Condoleezza Rice RNC speech". RNC 2012: Condoleezza Rice delivers speech to Republican National Convention in Tampa, www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.

  Reince Priebus

  Government, Political, Reason

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• Free markets are a tool, free speech is a goal.

  Tim Bray

  Goal, Tools, Speech

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• The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Greatness, America, Capitalism

  FaceBook post by Fran Tarkenton from Jun 19, 2013

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• 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.

  Vaclav Havel

  Rights, Ideas, Democracy

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• 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'.

  Sam Brownback

  Eugenics, Giving, Progress

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• The free market is not only a more efficient decision maker than even the wisest central planning body, but even more important, the free market keeps economic power widely dispersed.

  Milton Friedman

  Decision, Important, Body

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• Yes, our greatness as a nation has depended on individual initiative, on a belief in the free market. But it has also depended on our sense of mutual regard for each other, of mutual responsibility. The idea that everybody has a stake in the country, that we're all in it together and everybody's got a shot at opportunity. Americans know this. We know that government can't solve all our problems - and we don't want it to. But we also know that there are some things we can't do on our own. We know that there are some things we do better together.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Responsibility, Opportunity

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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