Top Free Markets Quotes

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

It's WW2 and there are wage controls in place. Instead of health care, companies decide to offer employees shoes. Having absorbed those costs, they later lobby for every company to be required to offe...

Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government. That is, libertarians believe that murder is murder and does not become sanctified...

Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.

People who can't imagine order without imposition always end up favoring power over liberty.

A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy.

Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion.

Government as we now know it in the USA and other economically advanced countries is so manifestly horrifying, so corrupt, counterproductive, and outright vicious, that one might well wonder how it co...

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.

Collectivism is the "philosophy" of every cockroach and sewer rat: "If I want it, I must need it, and if I need it, I have a right to it, and if I have a right to it, it doesn't matter what I have to...

When people encounter the free market and they recoil or react negatively to it, they're merely confessing that voluntaryism, trade and negotiation are foreign and threatening to them, which tells you...

When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.

Arguing that the only problem with a free market is lack of competition, is like arguing that that the only problem with prostitution is that there aren't enough pimps.

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

Irony: Taking a 170-year-old envy-based "philosophy," which has led to the murder of several hundred million human beings and the oppression of billions more, and calling it "progressive".

As long as government has the power to regulate business, business will control government by funding the candidate that legislates in their favor. A free-market thwarts lobbying by taking the power t...

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

Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government.