Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

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.

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

Free-enterprise capitalism is the most powerful system for social cooperation and human progress ever conceived. It is one of the most compelling ideas we humans have ever had. But we can aspire to something even greater.

For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'

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.

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

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.

Every time you go for more competition, some people don’t like it, but that’s the way it is. We believe it is better for the people.

This may sound trite, but I believe it to be true: Entrepreneurship is the fabric of what America is all about.

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

When I think about capitalism, I think about all the small businesses that were started because we have the opportunity and the freedom in America for people to do that and to make a good living for themselves and their families. And I don't think we should confuse what we have to do every so often in America, which is save capitalism from itself.

I am firmly opposed to the government entering into any business the major purpose of which is competition with our citizens... for the Federal Government deliberately to go out to build up and expand... a power and manufacturing business is to break down the initiative and enterprise of the American people; it is the destruction of equality of opportunity amongst our people, it is the negation of the ideals upon which our civilization has been based.

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.

The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government official, a trade union official, or a business executive. If forces them to put up or shut up. They either have to deliver the goods, produce something that people are willing to pay for, are willing to buy, or else they have to go into a different business.

Free enterprise has enabled the creative and the acquisitive urges of man to be given expression in a way which benefits all members of society. Let free enterprise fight back now, not for itself, but for all those who believe in freedom.

Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.

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.

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.

Provided that societies stay mindful of the challenges that capitalism creates and never forget the paramount importance of inclusion and equal opportunity, we can and should celebrate the miracle of free enterprise-and the billions of souls it has helped free from desperate poverty.

Free enterprise is the best economic system in the history of the world, because it is the only system where you can make poor people richer and you don't have to make rich people poor.

The greatest opportunities today are to go into business for yourself as an entrepreneur.

If everyone thinks you have a good idea, you´re too late

Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.

My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn't believe that it was free.