Robert Kennedy Quotes

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

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

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

Since the 1980s, Republicans have argued that policies embraced by a majority of Americans to promote equality of opportunity actually infringe liberty by hampering businessmen's actions or taking their money through taxes.

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

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.

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

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.

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.

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan.

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

We believe in liberty, we believe in limited government, we believe in free enterprise, we believe in family values and the sanctity of human life, and we all believe Washington needs a good dose of Economics 101.

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.

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.

In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture.

I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for it.

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

Economic freedom is an end in itself …. Economic freedom is an indispensable means towards the achievement of political freedom.

Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon his freedom and a limitation of his right to make the most of himself in order that he may rise in the scale of the social and economic order in which he lives.

Among inalienable rights was the right to pursue any lawful business or vocation.

Let him who will, be he economic tyrant or sordid mercenary, pit his strength against this mighty upsurge of human sentiment now being crystallized in the hearts of thirty million workers who clamor for the establishment of industrial democracy and for participation in its tangible fruits. He is a madman of a fool who believes that this river of human sentiment can be damned.

Free Minds—Free Markets

No trade or profession in Pennsylvania is bound by guilds; every one may carry on whatever business he will or can, and if any one could or would carry on ten trades, no one would have a right to prevent him; and if, for instance, a lad as an apprentice, or through his own unaided exertions, learns his art or trade in six months, he can pass for a master, and may marry whenever he chooses.