Free Market Quotes - Page 7

• People who denounce the free market and voluntary exchange, and are for control and coercion, believe they have more intelligence and superior wisdom to the masses. What's more, they believe they've been ordained to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us. Of course, they have what they consider good reasons for doing so, but every tyrant that has ever existed has had what he believed were good reasons for restricting the liberty of others.

  Walter E. Williams

  Believe, Tyrants, People

  Walter E. Williams (2013). “Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays”, p.140, Hoover Press

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• There is not one grain of anything in the world that is sold in the free market. Not one. The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.

  Dwayne Andreas

  World, Speech, Politician

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• One of the wonderful things about free markets is that the path to greater wealth comes not from looting, plundering and enslaving one's fellow man, as it has throughout most of human history, but by serving and pleasing him.

  Walter E. Williams

  Men, Fellow Man, Path

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• Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market.

  Murray Rothbard

  Invasion, Inflation, Property

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1981). “What Has Government Done to Our Money?”, p.48, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• One of the reasons the United States has actually been reducing its emissions in recent years is actually that there's been a boom in natural gas. It's displacing coal. It emits less carbon dioxide when you burn it. This is not really an Obama policy. It's just something that happened because of technology and the free market.

  Chris Mooney

  Technology, Years, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The advantage of the free market system is that people invest their capital, they create jobs by investing their capital, and hopefully they get a return on that investment. I don't think there's anything wrong with good old American capitalism.

  Steve Stivers

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "Exclusive Interview with Steve Stivers, Challenger of OH-15". Interview with Mytheos Holt, www.nationalreview.com. September 9, 2010.

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• A new model of heroic capitalism based on principle-driven, free-market entrepreneurship deserves a central place in business-ethics thought and action.

  Robert L. Bradley, Jr.

  Principles, Ethics, Action

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• Our tragedy today is not just that millions of people who called themselves communist or socialist were physically liquidated in Vietnam, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, not just that China and Russia, after all that revolution, have become capitalist economies, not just that the working class has been ruined in the United States and its unions dismantled, not just that Greece has been brought to its knees, or that Cuba will soon be assimilated into the free market - it is also that the language of the Left, the discourse of the Left, has been marginalised and is sought to be eradicated.

  Arundhati Roy

  Capitalist Economy, Iran, Class

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Different, Way, Very Good

  "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang" by John Gray, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2010.

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• The free market doesn't exist. Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Choices, Looks, Failing

  "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism: Item #1 -- There's No Such Thing as a Free Market" by Ha-Joon Chang, www.alternet.org. January 30, 2011.

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• The advantage of a free market is that it allows millions of decision-makers to respond individually to freely determined prices, allocating resources - labor, capital and human ingenuity - in a manner that can't be mimicked by a central plan, however brilliant the central planner.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Decision, Brilliant, Determined

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• The free market exists to promote prosperity and human life, and that is what it has accomplished, splendidly, with breathtaking brilliance. In the industrialized world, the average person today enjoys a standard of living superior to that of kings and emperors of the past. The whole world's population is capable of enjoying the same marvelous results, if it adopts economic freedom.

  George Reisman

  Kings, Past, Average

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• Failure is a big part of a free market's success. People fail to live up to their potential, or to carry out all their good intentions, in all kinds of economic and political systems. Capitalism makes them pay a price for their failures, while socialism, feudalism, fascism and other systems enable personal failures, especially by those at the top, to be ignored.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Political, Pay

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• It is not uncommon to suppose that the free exchange of property in markets and capitalism are one and the same. They are not. While capitalism operates through the free market, free markets don't require capitalism.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Uncommon, Capitalism, Property

  Jeremy Rifkin (2014). “The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism”, p.39, Palgrave Macmillan

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• . . I think the Adam Smith role was played in this cycle i.e. the late twentieth century collapse of socialism in which the idea of free-markets succeeded first, and then special events catalyzed a complete change of socio-political policy in countries around the world by Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Thinking, Ideas

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• Hey, guess what? Turns out the free market? Not so free. Wall Street was hit hard Monday when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America, and insurance giant AIG neared a collapse of its own. Basically, if your commercials air during golf tournaments, you're done.

  Amy Poehler

  Monday, Brother, Wall

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• Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.

  Don DeLillo

  Assets, Harder, Corporate

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.66, Pan Macmillan

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• I didn't have a perfect model, but I wanted to try to blend my own personal reflections and experiences with this broader canvas to see how a lot of the narratives we have about economy and foreign policy got stuck. Because we have these categories of liberal, conservative, free marketer, open government - all these stereotypes about our politics and the categories we try to put things in are inadequate to this sort of complex, ambiguous, sometimes contradictory experience we have as ordinary people and that I have as an elected official.

  Barack Obama

  Reflection, Government, Perfect

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• Through my newspaper comic strip, public speaking, and filmmaking, I try to tell as many people as possible, of all ages and from all walks of life, that we are destroying the ocean at such an alarming rate that we can't wait for a systematic solution. We can't wait for our political leadership to warm up to the idea, and we can't wait for the free market to find alternatives. We must act as individuals, now.

  Jim Toomey

  Ocean, Ideas, People

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• Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct it. How, for instance, can one compare a socialized post office with private postal delivery when the latter has been outlawed?

  Leonard Read

  Men, Office, Example

  "Excuse Me, Professor: Challenging the Myths of Progressivism". Book by Leonard Read, July 28, 2015.

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• I think the free market model of commercial trade openness - this model has undoubtedly shown enormous benefits for nations, for those of us that follow this model, of course.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Thinking, Benefits, Enormous

  Source: time.com

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• Government, not the oil industry, is the biggest 'profiteer' from oil. And it uses the tax revenue to expand its own authority at the expense of the individual, as it does with an endless number of other industries - including electric power, coal, lumber, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, aircraft, and agriculture. The Statist's intrusion to the free market is boundless.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Electric Power, Oil

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• It [the free market] is an organizational way of doing things, featuring openness, which enables millions of people to cooperate and compete without demanding a preliminary clearance of pedigree, nationality, color, race, religion, or wealth. It demands only that each person abide by voluntary principles, that is, by fair play. The free market means willing exchange; it is impersonal justice in the economic sphere and excludes coercion, plunder, theft, protectionism, and other anti-free market ways by which goods and services change hands.

  Leonard Read

  Mean, Play, Race

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• In the free market, a man born into wealth or who has otherwise acquired great riches can lose his fortune depending on how he chooses to behave. Conversely, a man born into poverty or who has lost wealth once obtained can acquire a fortune, depending, again, on how he chooses to behave.

  Mark Levin

  Men, Riches, Poverty

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• I've spent my whole life fighting for free-market principles and the Constitution. That's not going to change.

  Ted Cruz

  Fighting, Principles, Constitution

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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