Arthur C. Brooks Quotes

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

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

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

The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

The key to democracy has been the free market economy.

I am pro-capitalism, and I am pro-free market.

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.

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

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.

I do believe in the free market.

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

Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has never come close to.

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.

Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.

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 really promotes business in this country is liberty, not demand for information.

What is really at stake here is the survival of the kind of economy under which this country has grown great, the free-enterprise system

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.

If you don't believe in winning, you don't believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.

I consider the philosophy of the Communist Party as not applicable to our American way of life.

I'm pro-free enterprise.

I believe in the free enterprise system.

Free market never succeeded without free men and free society.

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.