“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.” IfsIndividualJusticeRightsGenerationsSecuritySucceedConceptsCapitalismGuaranteesEnterpriseNational SecuritySovereigntyGuarantees ThatFree EnterpriseIndividual Rights Author:George Nethercutt
“[I believe in] the throne...parliamentary institutions...private enterprise and individual opinion against the socialization of the state...equity in the distribution of public burdens and strict maintenance of public faith with the creditors of the state [and] a fresh guarantee of peace by an alliance with France and...Belgium for the defence of our common interests against unprovoked attack.” BelieveStatesIndividualI BelieveInterestCommonOpinionInstitutionsBurdenI Believe InFranceGuaranteesEnterpriseThronesStrictDistributionEquityDefenceAlliancesMaintenanceBelgiumCreditorsParliamentaryCommon InterestsSocializationPrivate Enterprise Author:Austen Chamberlain
“Economic activity, especially the activity of a market economy, cannot be conducted in an institutional, juridical or political vacuum. On the contrary, it presupposes sure guarantees of individual freedom and private property, as well as a stable currency and efficient public services.” WellsWisdomPoliticalPoliticsIndividualEconomyEconomicActivityPropertyContraryLiberalismGuaranteesEfficientStableCurrencyVacuumsPublic ServicePrivate PropertyMarket EconomyIndividual Freedom Book:The Encyclicals of John Paul II Source: The Encyclicals of John Paul II
“Adam Smith's was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural harmony of interests within each nation... But the "children of darkness" were able to make good use of his creed. A dogma which was intended to guarantee the economic freedom of the individual became the "ideology" of vast corporate structures of a later period of capitalism, used by them, and still used, to prevent a proper political control of their power.” WorldWellsChildrenStillsRealUseAblePoliticalUsedPoliticsIndividualNationsInterestCommunityNaturalDarknessEconomyEconomicPeriodsCapitalismHarmonyStructureIdeologyCorporateLiberalismGuaranteesAdamCreedsDogmaLaissez FaireEconomic FreedomUniversalismLaissez Faire Capitalism Author:Reinhold Niebuhr