Free trade, far from protectionism, is the path that we should take to make Latin America a thriving actor in the global economy. —
Enrique Pena Nieto

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

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

We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America ... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action. —
Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to
free trade. —
Ron Paul

It's not a
free trade agreement. It has virtually nothing to do with
free trade ... It's a protectionist agreement; it's anti free-trade. —
Noam Chomsky

You don't need a treaty to have
free trade. —
Murray Rothbard
Free trade will go a long way toward alleviating poverty in Central America. Yet trade alone is not enough. —
Oscar Arias
Free trade is meaningless unless there is also fair trade. —
Michael Crichton

Here, we trade achievements, not failures - values, not needs. We're free of one another, yet we all grow together. —
Ayn Rand

Germany is very free-trade oriented. —
Gerhard Schroder

To hear the Japanese plead for
free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot. —
Lane Kirkland

There was
free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came. —
George Ayittey

It is in all our interests that the arteries of global trade are kept free, open and running. —
Philip Hammond
Free trade should not mean free labor. —
Stephen F. Lynch
Free trade creates jobs and prosperity in the Netherlands at the port of Rotterdam or the airport at Schiphol. —
Mark Rutte

Some day, following the example of men like themselves, said Mr Fraser, the Chinese too would take to Free Trade: —
Amitav Ghosh

The problem is you cannot have free global trade with highly restrictive, regulated domestic markets. —
Alan Greenspan

Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status. —
Isabel Paterson

I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief ... in free and open trade. —
Nancy Reagan

I debated
free trade in college. I came out as a
free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy. —
Sam Wyly

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

Technological advance often thrives in sheltered and subsidized markets, which defy
free trade. —
Robert Kuttner

Let's start getting some
free trade agreements started as soon as we can. We need to get on with it; we need to get a grip and make progress. —
Theresa May

She leaned forward and opened her eyes wide. "Allow me to offer you some free advice - trade your gems away and keep your opinions to yourself. —
Stephen Whitfield

In response to a suggestion that total
free trade would end in cheaper foreign products flooding the market and causing unemployment. —
Milton Friedman

People say
free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation. —
P. J. O'Rourke

Few countries have become rich through free-trade, free-market policies, and few ever will. —
Ha-Joon Chang

Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in
free trade. —
Hugo Chavez

The profit of the one is the profit of the other. —
Frederic Bastiat

Bigotry does not consort easily with
free trade. —
Peter Ackroyd

I think bolstering
free trade is a boon to the dollar. —
Carly Fiorina
Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations. —
Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

Everyone asks for freedom for himself,
The man free love, the businessman
free trade,
The writer and talker free speech and free press. —
Robert Frost

International trade in chemical products is not free. . . . Joint control of the market became the general rule; free competition, the exception. —
George W. Stocking

The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is
free trade. —
Charles Koch
Free trade or the free market means the sovereignty of the consumer. —
Faustino Ballve

That foreign trade should be fair rather than free. —
Lyn Nofziger

Happily, financial capitalism and
free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped. —
Pankaj Mishra

The biggest single thing that has lifted people out of poverty is
free trade. —
George Osborne

The assertion that everyone benefits simultaneously from
free trade is simply incorrect. —
Kenneth Rogoff

I'm quite an advocate of
free trade. —
Najib Razak

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with
free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty. —
Michael Badnarik
Free trade with Colombia is something that's a no-brainer. —
John McCain

Likewise,
free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade. —
Stephen F. Lynch

It's very hard to find things that rhyme with North American Free Trade Agreement. —
Chris Martin

I love trade. I'm a
free trader, 100 percent. But we [the USA] need smart people making the deals, and we don't have smart people making the deals. —
Donald Trump

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
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice. —
Edmund Burke

Globalism began as a vision of a world with
free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for. —
Deepak Chopra

Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god. —
Stefan Molyneux