Laissez-faire Quotes

Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanctio...

It rests on the attempt since the 1970s to translate a pathological degeneration of the principle of...

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

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.

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

Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more selle...

Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.

Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If p...

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

Conflict is not unavoidable. However, it is nonsensical to consider the institution of a state as a ...

A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, ...

In a covenant...among proprietor and community tenants for the purpose of protecting their private p...

There can be no socialism without a state, and as long as there is a state there is socialism. The s...

Experience cannot beat logic, and interpretations of observational evidence which are not in line wi...

The traditional, correct pre-Marxist view on exploitation was that of radical laissez-faire liberali...

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

Government programs didn’t arise because the people demanded them or because the free market was una...

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of soc...

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

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

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

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...

It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.

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.

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it ...

Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism an...

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

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, a...

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

It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and th...

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to ...

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

What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced socie...

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

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the sur...

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limi...

There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those...

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