(646 quotes found)
“All systems are capitalist. It's just a matter of who owns and controls the capital -- ancient king, dictator, or private individual. We should properly be looking at the contrast between a free market system where individuals have the right to live like kings if they have the ability to earn that right and government control of the market system such as we find today in socialist nations.”
Ronald Reagan
“I believe government should not try to solve every problem. But private enterprise and government - working together - should ensure that everyone willing to work hard and play by the rules has a fair chance for a good job, a decent home in a safe community, affordable health care, and a quality education for their children and retirement security.”
Chet Edwards
“A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.”
William Lyon Phelps
“So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community”
William Blackstone
“I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the brain and in the senses of man, and I cannot see any man's death as a contributing factor in the success or failure of a military campaign.”
William Saroyan
“Reading is like the sex act-done privately, and often in bed.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“If you're going to move to private accounts, which I approve of, I think you have to do it in a cautious, gradual way.”
Alan Greenspan
“I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!”
Salma Hayek
“Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.”
Italo Calvino
“In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private”
Benjamin Franklin
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