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“For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best judges of the national interest are...businessmen. This may be a ridiculous statement, but -- ominously -- fewer and fewer people laugh at it.”

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Author:Neal Ascherson

“Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor.”

Thinking Should Self Helping Government Interest Poor Worry Industry Lows Fingers Italian Initiative Businessman Self Interest Morale Help The Poor

Author:Diego Della Valle

“Official opposition to overall economic planning and planning controls has been characterized in a recent editorial as "Papa knows best." But it is precisely because Papa does not know best that I believe that Government should not presume to tell any businessman or industrialist what he should or should not do, far less what he may or not do; and no matter how it may be dressed up that is what planning is.”

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Author:John James Cowperthwaite

“I largely agree with those that hold that Government should not in general interfere with the course of the economy merely on the strength of its own commercial judgment. If we cannot rely on the judgment of individual businessmen, taking their own risks, we have no future anyway.”

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Author:John James Cowperthwaite

“I still believe that, in the long run, the aggregate of the decisions of individual businessmen, exercising individual judgment in a free economy, even if often mistaken, is likely to do less harm than the centralized decisions of a Government; and certainly the harm is likely to be counteracted faster. As I said earlier in this debate, our economic medicine may be painful but it is fast and powerful because it can act freely.”

“Governments and politicians use the family as an indicator of the health and strength of social life. Politicians fear that any weakening of family life will in some way sap the vitality of national life.... The family is also important to businessmen. It is one of the major purchasing groups of our consumer society.”

Way Important Use Government Social Groups Politician Majors Consumers Businessman Vitality Family Life Social Life Sap Indicators Weakening Purchasing Health And Strength

Author:Adrian Wilson

“Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even outright government subsidies.”

Self Character Government Enjoy Loss Business Benefits Businessman Self Reliance Reliance Notable Subsidies Tariffs Stalwart

Book:the Uses of the Past

Source: the Uses of the Past

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

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Author:Rand Paul

“Indeed, the "whole bourgeoisie" on whose behalf the government was acting as its "committee" was a composite of a vast multitude of businessmen appearing as a conglomeration of many different and divergent groups and interests.”

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Book:Political Econ of Growth

Source: Political Econ of Growth