"Private enterprise is ceasing to be free..." - Quote by Franklin D Roosevelt
Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.
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“It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.”
“Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.”
“The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.”
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“I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known. I believe in self-reliance and individual initiative and risk-takers being rewarded. But I also believe that everybody should have a fair shot and everybody should do their fair share and everybody should play by the same rules, because that's how our economy's grown. That's how we built the world's greatest middle class.”
“Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.”
“Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.”
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“I love big business!”
“In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the supercorporate chieftains who pay themselves millions. In every major economic downturn in US history the villains have been the heroes during the preceding boom.”
“Capitalism in its imperialistic stage is a system which regards war as a legitimate method for solution of international disputes - a method which is legitimate in fact if not legally so.”