All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to be the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
-Adam Smith
The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists. They're too damned greedy.
Excessive fortunes are a menace to true liberty.
We have learned that the impulse to production can be maintained at a high pitch only if there is a fair division of the product. We have also learned that fair division can only be obtained by certain restrictions on the strong and dominant.
The very essence of great production is high wages and low prices, because it depends on the widening... consumption, only to be obtained from the purchasing power of high real wages and increased standards of living.
-Herbert Hoover
The true conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise from it... I am that kind of conservative because I am that kind of liberal.
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
We believe that this country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for everyone to all of us to live in.
-Theodore Roosevelt.
