Nick Gillespie Quotes

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

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

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

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

Americans have learned to trust free markets. Republican or Democrat, we believe the unimpeded exchange of goods and services will yield better solutions than five-year plans set by even the most well-meaning public servants.

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.

I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.

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.

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

Free prices are the price of freedom.

Free markets tend to promote democracy.

The key to democracy has been the free market economy.

I don't like the spirit of socialism – I think freedom is the basis of everything.

In 10 years, ... you're going to see the most valuable economy in the world -- the largest economy in the world -- is going to be a country run by communists. The Chinese seem to be very good at capitalism. And this is going to have fundamental problems and present an identity crisis for the United States. Because for a long time, free markets coincided with liberties such as free speech, free press, free religion. And all of a sudden, this equation is going to be decoupled. And when it gets decoupled, we might find that democracy, the multitude of voices, actually impedes capitalism because a state that does not have any pretense of limited government can very quickly mandate a regulatory framework for drones, for electric cars, for self-driving cars, for any new innovation where they feel that they can leapfrog Western societies. And this is a very unique thing in the American experience. And this is why it's very important to think of American capitalism as an operating system and not as an ideology. Because when you think about it as an ideology, you can have good politics make for very, very bad policy. That market outcomes and democratic voices and battles for votes can end up stifling progress.

In the Republican Party, we talk all the time about the importance of free markets and open competition. It seems to me that if we don't practice what we preach, we won't have much credibility with others.

Ever since the end of Medieval feudalism, and the writings of John Locke, we have understood the importance of being able to buy and sell one's own property, including books and watches, both for reasons of economics and liberty.

Free market never succeeded without free men and free society.

If someone builds a fortune, it belongs to him, not the government. An entitled government undermines liberty.

You've got to have free markets with limited government, with the proper amount of regulation where you don't jam entrepreneurship.

With free market and free man, if you remove one of them, it is not called capitalism in my dictionary.

I have spent my entire career advocating for free-market economic policies, trying to convince the leaders of this country that unnecessary government interference in the market-place - and let's face it, most government is totally unnecessary - destroys liberty and inhibits prosperity.

I like free markets, I like competition.

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.

Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.

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