Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Most countries choose to have government run the economy.

If you want government to take everything, if you want government to take more and more over with the banks, more of the industries, all of a sudden you're going to have a government auto czar, right there, right down the line, that's socialism.

No less than 50 percent of the means of production must be in the hands of the state.

When Government has a monopoly of all production and all distribution, as many Governments have, it can not permit any economic activity that competes with it.

Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say "But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time.

Where there is no market economy, the best intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.

The problem is big government. If whoever controls government can impose his way upon you, you have to fight constantly to prevent the control from being harmful. With small, limited government, it doesn't much matter who controls it, because it can't do you much harm.

What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.

Everything you heard about me is true. . . . I am not a free marketer. . . . I believe in the heavy hand of government.

Economic planning is nothing more than the forcible superseding of other people's plans by the powerful elite backed up by the brute force of government.

We (British) have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public sector is that part that nobody controls.

It should not be the government running the economy.

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

We will do whatever the government tells us to do, which is a critically important principle of the Chinese market economy, and there is nothing more for discussion about it.

I would like to see the word 'nationalization' banned from the socialist vocabulary.

There's a very good reason that governments aren't supposed to compete with private-enterprise companies. Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.

I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.

Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.

State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.

The socialist system, however, forbids this fundamental freedom to choose one's own career. Under socialist conditions, there is only one economic authority, and it has the right to determine all matters concerning production.

The term "state socialism" is not precise. Under this term many understand an order under which a certain part of the wealth, sometimes a quite considerable part, passes into state ownership or under its control while in the great majority of cases the ownership of plants, factories, and land, remains in private hands.

I don't believe government should take over, you know, the grocery store down the street or own the means of production.

Government central planning means over-riding other people's plans.

The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.

Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.