Free-market Quotes

It must be remembered that a vast majority of mankind’s history has been spent living under the rule...

As if it were Injustice to sell dearer than we buy; or to give more to a man than he merits. The val...

Price controls almost invariably produce black markets, where prices are not only higher than the le...

It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the Sierra Club. It was the Wright brothers who...

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds openin...

Go into the London Stock Exchange – a more respectable place than many a court – and you will see re...

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they a...

When you live in the United States, with the roar of the free market, the roar of this huge military...

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting b...

It's a funny thing about Americans, we love to bitch about paying too much for the things we really ...

We preach about capitalism and the beauty of unfettered market forces determining price--but not whe...

If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should thi...

The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption f...

True, t is only individuals who starve, but what security has the working-man that it may not be his...

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its m...

The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.

If the world were full of the self-seeking individuals found in economics textbooks, it would grind ...

First, with the establishment of a state and territorially defined state borders, “immigration” take...

A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to de...

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, h...

Not only does the State do the work badly on a domain not its own, bunglingly, at greater cost, and ...

Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls o...

Socialism is a monster, which will die.

We are not for making shoes, so the shoemakers can have jobs, but so we can wear the shoes.

The essential difference between rich societies and poor societies does not stem from any greater ef...

I wanta buy stuff. Stuff I don't need... Stuff settin' out there, you jus' feel like buyin' it wheth...

Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and...

Health care and education are too important NOT to be left to the free market.

The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations,...

Rhetorical bombast, music and song resound, banners wave, flowers and colors serve as symbols, and t...

What ranks above all else for economic and political reconstruction is a radical change of ideologie...

The valuations which result in determination of definite prices are different. Each party attaches a...

There is not the slightest analogy between playing games and the conduct of business within a market...

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it ...

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.

How little one is justified in speaking in this connection of "optimism" and "pessimism" and how muc...

If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his...

No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not d...

And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made e...

If you can't afford the good food or if you can't afford health care or if you don't have a job or i...

People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time ac...

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government...

Social responsibility is a fundamentally subversive doctrine" in a free society, and have said that ...

Again, a Prince should show himself a patron of merit, and should honour those who excel in every ar...

The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in ...