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“Monopoly power is an illusion in any system in which free competition is allowed.”

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Author:John Pugsley

“Regulatory fiat cannot create a market at a technologically interdependent interface. And by the same token, regulation and so-called monopoly power rarely prevail at modular interfaces between stages of value-added technology.”

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Author:Clayton Christensen

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7

“The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.”

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Author:Sir John Richard Hicks

“The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is not passive acquiescence.”

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Book:Because We Say So

Source: Because We Say So

“That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.”

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Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe.”

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Book:Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography

Source: Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography

“I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.”

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Book:You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler

Source: You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler

“The mere possession of monopoly power, and the concomitant charging of monopoly prices, is not only not unlawful, it is an important element of the free-market system. The opportunity to charge monopoly prices - at least for a short period - is what attracts 'business acumen' in the first place; it induces risk taking that produces innovation and economic growth.”