Margaret Thatcher Quotes

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

Free enterprise system was born the second year the pilgrims were here. And of course, it has made America the most prosperous country in the world.

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

Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection of values, a coordination of hierarchies, a more amply developed sense of individual responsibility.

A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!

You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.

Capitalism is not a Ponzi scheme. Capitalism is a scheme of free markets.

I'm not pro-business. I'm pro-free enterprise.

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.

In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture.

You have to have free enterprise for the many.

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

Of course, America's free-enterprise system is what enables our manufacturers to be the most innovative.

The future of private enterprise capitalism is also the future of a free society. There is no possibility of having a politically free society unless the major part of its economic resources are operated under a capitalistic private enterprise system.

Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only system that stood for man's right to his own mind, to his work, to his life, to his happiness, to himself.

I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.

All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out

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.

Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly.

I think the free-enterprise system has been great for society. That doesn't mean it's completely perfect. And also, when people say capitalism, I'm not really sure what they mean.

Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.

The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system.