Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Our elected officials would do well to remember that the most prosperous countries are those that allow consumers - not governments - to direct the use of resources. Allowing the government to pick winners and losers hurts almost everyone, especially our poorest citizens.

You have to have free enterprise for the many.

I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

If I can go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich.

He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means "I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve". It's easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.

Conservatives tend to believe there is a close and necessary connection between prosperity and freedom - that economic freedom is an essential part of human freedom.

Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government.

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

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

I believed - and believe - that capitalism works best for a freedom-loving society, that it brings more prosperity to more people than any other social-economic system, but that somehow we have to take care of people.

Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.

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

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

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

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

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.

Life is full of joys and sorrows, much of it our own making. Sadly, the West has voted time and time again for bigger government, more inflation, higher taxes and excessive regulation - all policies that have kept us from Adam Smith's vision of an opulent society.

The doctrine of laissez faire is unsafe in politics and unsound in morals.

It is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I don’t believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it.

When private property ceases to make free men, its only spiritual justification goes. Democracy and the widespread distribution of private property go together.

The free enterprise system does not leave people behind.

The sanctity of private property is so fundamental a part of the American settlement that the country's conservatives look with suspicion on any policy that seems to prevent people from doing what they will with what is theirs.

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