“So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free-enterprise system.” PeopleWayGovernmentClearRecordsActivityOrdinaryCapitalismInvestingAlternativesEnterpriseProductiveCandleImprovingFree MarketOrdinary PeopleCrystalsTrue HappinessFree EnterpriseUnleashed Author:Milton Friedman
“It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.” StatesGovernmentWould BeGoalEconomyFoolishAlternativesAestheticCustodians Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism, to more and more government largesse accompanied always by more government authority, less individual liberty, and ultimately, totalitarianism, always advanced as for our own good. The alternative is the dream conceived by our Founding Fathers, up to the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with an orderly society.” StatesDreamGovernmentChoicesFatherIndividualLeftLibertyAuthorityUltimateConstitutionAlternativesWelfareConsistentFoundingTotalitarianismOur Founding FathersOrderlyOur ChoicesWelfare StateIndividual LibertyIndividual FreedomLargesse Book:Speaking my mind: selected speeches Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches
“We know that the only alternative to private competition is government monopoly of enterprise. We know that when government monopolizes production, distribution, and employment, it is no longer the servant of men - it is their master. And, therefore, we know that economic liberty and political liberty are inseparable parts of the same ball of wax - that we must keep them both, or we shall lose them both.” KnowsMenWisdomGovernmentPoliticalPoliticsLosesLibertyEconomyEconomicMastersBallsCompetitionProductionsEmploymentAlternativesServantLiberalismEnterpriseDistributionMonopolyInseparable Author:Benjamin Franklin Fairless
“It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersections, no fish and no ducks. OK?” IfsWantWellsBodyGovernmentRunningThreeCoursesOur LivesFishesAlternativesEtcFishingDucksRegulationLicenseIntersections Author:Molly Ivins
“The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.” StatesGovernmentReligionInstitutionsAlternativesHumanistic Author:R.J. Rushdoony
“... between government, business, and the public, there is a triangular community of interest. Clearly, it is in business' interest to shape its behavior to prevailing public values; it is more efficient to do so than not to do so. It is also clear that government is the high-cost alternative through which public values are imposed on corporations that do not accurately perceive these values.” GovernmentValuesInterestCommunityClearCostShapesBehaviorAlternativesPerceiveCorporationsEfficientPrevailing Author:Juanita M. Kreps
“Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans.” BelieveGovernmentDemocracyRepublicanAlternativesRepublican Government Author:William Pfaff