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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
Free-market capitalism, in the blink of an eye, was gutted and replaced by an oligopoly.
— Gerald Celente
The policy of letting the free market determine the height of wage rates is the only reasonable and successful full-employment policy.
— Ludwig Von Mises
This is the opposite of the free market.
— Bill Maher
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
— Ludwig Von Mises
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.
The whole world is an open, free market. No state can exist without the others.
— Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from warfare.
— Wendell Berry
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
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 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
I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.
— Claire Messud
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
The free market is not a god; we have to do everything we can to make the market competitive.
— Michael Gove
The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
— Tammy Bruce
The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts.
— Robert Reich
The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.
— Frederic Bastiat
When you argue for free markets, you are arguing against the trend.
— Milton Friedman
People used to make money, but somewhere along the way, it started making us.
— Trevor D. Richardson
We are not for making shoes, so the shoemakers can have jobs, but so we can wear the shoes.
— Janusz Korwin-Mikke
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
The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.
— Tom Scholz
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
For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.
— Christine Pelosi
I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.
— Milton Friedman
The argument for collectivism is simple; free market is not.
— Milton Friedman
From Chile to China to Iraq, torture has been a silent partner in the global free-market crusade.
— Naomi Klein
Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.
— Isabel Paterson
Free market capitalism has done more for the soul of the human race than any other system - it's created the highest standard of living.
— Chris Chocola
We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept is the idea that some folks won't even get a chance.
— Julian Castro
This is the fly in the ointment of free-market capitalism. It cannot ensure that profits are gained in a fair way, or distributed in a fair manner.
— Yuval Noah Harari
Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream.
— George W. Bush
Health care and education are too important NOT to be left to the free market.
— Kevin D. Williamson
Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.
— P. J. O'Rourke
True, the free market ignores the poor precisely as it does not recognize the wealthy - it is 'no respecter of persons'
— Leonard Read
The air we breathe is still free, but for how much time. I believe someone is busy patenting it to start selling it for profit
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Our ability to create jobs, our future growth, is built on the free market. It's built on open borders.
— Mark Rutte
Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.
— Tim Berners-Lee
The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.
— Fran Tarkenton
Basically, on the question of Europe, I want to see a social Europe, a cohesive Europe, a coherent Europe, not a free market Europe.
— Jeremy Corbyn
The free market is the epitome of life itself. This is something that all scientists recognise because science itself operates on free market lines.
— John Sulston
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 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
International trade in chemical products is not free. . . . Joint control of the market became the general rule; free competition, the exception.
— George W. Stocking
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
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 safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.
— Frederic Bastiat
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
Free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity!
— Lawrence Kudlow
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
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
The Free Market is Mother Nature's way of organizing economic activity.
— David D. Aitken
I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
— Gary Johnson
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
We know that government intervention in the free market, and Argentine history has shown this, absolutely ends in a boomerang.
— Daniel Morgan
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
Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet.
— Paul Hawken
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
...we should in the interests of accuracy refer not to 'democratic free market capitalism' but to 'plutocratic impunity capitalism'.
— Robert Wade
Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.
— Reince Priebus
The truly free market is the worker's best friend.
— Sheldon Richman
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
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