Quotes About Capitalism

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Things you own end up owning you.

Chuck Palahniuk

What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and all men. The woods, the streams, everything on it belongs to everybody and is for the use of all. How can one man say it belongs only to him?

Massasoit

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no period in human history in which the ordinary man - the ordinary man - had as great an improvement in his lot in life as in the nineteenth century in the United States, when the government was of trivial importance.

Milton Friedman