"American prosperity and American free enterprise are..." - Quote by Thomas Sowell

“There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?”

“Intellect is not wisdom.”

“The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles.”

“I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief”

“It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.”

“No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.”

“Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.”

“A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!”

“Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.”