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some supporters of the unrestrained free market have found that dogma: the claim that science is nothing more than politics.
— Timothy Snyder
We no longer have a free market in the United States, we have a government controlled free market.
— Jim Bunning
The theory of the determination of wages in a free market is simply a special case of the general theory of value. Wages are the price of labour.
— Sir John Richard Hicks
This is the opposite of the free market.
— Bill Maher
I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.
— Esther Dyson
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.
— Ayn Rand
I think people loosely use the term 'free speech.' If the market wants to be such that people don't want to watch someone, so be it.
— Greta Van Susteren
We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
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
While I believe firmly in open markets and free trade, I also believe an open market needs a level playing field.
— Philip Hammond
The whole world is an open, free market. No state can exist without the others.
— Recep Tayyip Erdogan
The Republican Party and the conservative free market movement have been presidentially focused for too long.
— Grover Norquist
The United States has never done away with slavery; we just stopped calling it such. These days, we call it free-market capitalism.
— Michel Templet
I wanta buy stuff. Stuff I don't need ... Stuff settin' out there, you jus' feel like buyin' it whether you need it or not.
-Uncle John — John Steinbeck
-Uncle John — John Steinbeck
Socialism is a monster, which will die.
— Janusz Korwin-Mikke
The more laws and restrictions there are,
The poorer people become.
...
The more rules and regulations,
The more thieves and robbers. — Lao-Tzu
The poorer people become.
...
The more rules and regulations,
The more thieves and robbers. — Lao-Tzu
I'm a free market person, a free trader. But if we had a market in California, there would be competition.
— Anna Eshoo
I certainly think the free-market has failed.
— Hillary Clinton
I went out as a free agent in Boston and had a great year and I priced myself out of there market, at the time.
— Johnny Damon
In a free market, one reaps what one sows, not what someone else sows.
— Mark Hendrickson
A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.
— Charles Wheelan
Free markets are based on the free circulation of labor. If you don't have free circulation of labor, you don't have free markets.
— Noam Chomsky
We like to think that a free market's greatest strength is its self-corrective nature.
— Nina Easton
The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent.
— Ha-Joon Chang
There is no free market in oil.
— Peter DeFazio
The Free Market is Mother Nature's way of organizing economic activity.
— David D. Aitken
When you argue for free markets, you are arguing against the trend.
— Milton Friedman
Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet.
— Paul Hawken
There is no free market for oil.
— T. Boone Pickens
We know that government intervention in the free market, and Argentine history has shown this, absolutely ends in a boomerang.
— Daniel Morgan
If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.
— Vijay Mallya
Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.
— Ralph Nader
...we should in the interests of accuracy refer not to 'democratic free market capitalism' but to 'plutocratic impunity capitalism'.
— Robert Wade
I believe in a free market of ideas and not shying away from debate.
— Kevin McCarthy
A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
— Victor Hugo
In a true free market economy, you can't make yourself rich without enriching your community.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Tell me, what do they do for us in Bulgaria? Do they fix the prices? Or is there some kind of a free market?
— Dwayne Andreas
Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.
— Harry Browne
We are not for making shoes, so the shoemakers can have jobs, but so we can wear the shoes.
— Janusz Korwin-Mikke
President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.
— Fred Barnes
He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Funny, I don't particularly care for either "laws" or "order". Liberty is messy. Freedom yields imperfect results.
— A.E. Samaan
Forcing free market plans to compete with these government-run programs would create an unlevel playing field and inevitably doom true competition ...
— Mitch McConnell
People used to make money, but somewhere along the way, it started making us.
— Trevor D. Richardson
The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.
— Frederic Bastiat
The truly free market is the worker's best friend.
— Sheldon Richman
I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
— Gary Johnson
The ideal capitalism envisioned by advocates of the free market depends upon social virtues and wise policies that it does not itself generate.
— Timothy Snyder
I'm a free-market economist from years and years back, and I've never veered from that.
— Alan Greenspan
When people criticize the free market, they are usually complaining about what happens when you intervene in the free market.
— James Cook
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
— Michel De Montaigne
The Netherlands and the UK are both seafaring nations and so our ability to create jobs and to generate future growth is built on the free market.
— Mark Rutte
The Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society.
— Mark Levin
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
— Milton Friedman
Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is a symptom of freedom. It is the result of individual rights, which include property rights.
— A.E. Samaan
The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.
— Frederic Bastiat
International trade in chemical products is not free. . . . Joint control of the market became the general rule; free competition, the exception.
— George W. Stocking
Free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity!
— Lawrence Kudlow
Few countries have become rich through free-trade, free-market policies, and few ever will.
— Ha-Joon Chang
Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.
— Ha-Joon Chang
In response to a suggestion that total free trade would end in cheaper foreign products flooding the market and causing unemployment.
— Milton Friedman
I know their unstinted devotion to the free-market economy, provided it's their freedom and somebody else's economy.
— John Le Carre
Our platform emphasizes that a vibrant, free and fair market is essential to economic growth.
— Cory Booker
I do believe in the free market.
— Kevin McCarthy
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
— Milton Friedman
The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.
— Ted Cruz
There prevails on a free labor market a tendency toward full employment.
— Ludwig Von Mises
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
— Jane Smiley
A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade ... there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.
— Nathaniel Branden
Materialism and consumerism are merely emergent properties of our neurobiology given free rein in a free market.
— Piers Steel
Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market.
— Murray Rothbard
When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.
— Wayne Rogers
I was brought up on the proletarian left, and I remain there. The fair go for workers is fundamental, and I don't believe the free market has a mind.
— Clive James
The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant.
— Christine Pelosi
The free market is the greatest repository of our freedoms. Economic freedom is the freedom we exercise most often and to the greatest extent.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.
— Reince Priebus
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
Free markets select for winning solutions.
— Eric S. Raymond
Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.
— Barack Obama
Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.
— Bill Gates
Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
— Ha-Joon Chang
The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.
— Dean Acheson
If you wish to have free access to the single market, then you have to accept the fundamental rights as well as obligation that come from it.
— Angela Merkel
Free trade or the free market means the sovereignty of the consumer.
— Faustino Ballve
The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.
— Thomas Friedman