P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.

Free markets are amazing.

I am a believer in Adam Smith, who says that if you look at something that really contributes value to society, and you can deliver it at a reasonable price, then society will recognise that at some point because rational behaviour will come into play.

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

The great thing about capitalism is that it's a system that works.

No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes.

What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.

I talk about economic freedom. I talk about capitalism without fearing the word.

Though my heart may be left of centre, I have always known that the only economic system that works is a market economy... This is the only natural economy, the only kind that makes sense, the only one that can lead to prosperity, because it is the only one that reflects the nature of life itself.

I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known.

The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts on his own behalf; but everybodys actions aim at the satisfaction of other peoples needs as well as at the satisfaction of his own. Everybody in acting serves his fellow citizens.

Capitalism works.

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

Our platform emphasizes that a vibrant, free and fair market is essential to economic growth.

Private property and the market system are good not only to promote innovation and to promote growth; private property and the market system are good for our personal freedom.

The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.

The free market is the epitome of life itself. This is something that all scientists recognise because science itself operates on free market lines.

There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.

I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business practices like Adam Smith and the whole Enlightenment. It essentially made the merchant class free instead of controlled by the king and aristocracy. That was essential.

The key to the moral superiority of capitalism is that people get rich by imaginatively serving the needs of others.

No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.

[Capitalism] has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring or at the least lays golden eggs.

Global economic growth significantly increases with the growth of the world’s economic freedom.

In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.

You have to have free enterprise for the many.