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“Historical evidence speaks with a single voice on the relation between political freedom and a free market. I know of no example in time or place of a society that has been marked by a large measure of political freedom, and that has not also used something comparable to a free market to organize the bulk of economic activity.”
"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."
--[[Milton Friedman]], Capitalism and Freedom, 1962.
"If an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place unless both believe they will benefit from it. Most economic fallacies derive from the neglect of this simple insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another."
--[[Milton Friedman]], Free to Choose
“Capitalism is essentially the economic system of poor people. That’s what allowed the people that came from humble origins of the world to have economic rights the way only nobility and the high bourgeoisie had it before. So capitalism is essentially a tool for poor people to prosper.”
"The only real cure for poverty is production". [[Henry Hazlitt]], from ''Man vs. the Welfare State''.
"The first condition for the establishment of perpetual peace is the general adoption of the principles of laissez-faire capitalism."
--Ludwig von Mises, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science
"There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means."
-- Albert Jay Nock, Our enemy, the State
"Businessmen are the symbol of a free society — the symbol of America."
-- Ayn Rand
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