Henry Demarest Lloyd Quotes

The granting of monopolies, or exclusive privileges to individuals or corporations, is an invasion of the right of others to choose a lawful calling, and an infringement of personal liberty.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

I do not expect monopoly to restrain itself.

The people were told in the last campaign that trusts [corporate monopolies] were a natural evolution, and that the only way to deal with them was to regulate them. The people are tired of being told such things. What they want is the kind of opportunity that formerly existed in this country.

If, as you say, the success of commercial society depends upon the full play of competition, why do not you and your confreres turn your attention and direct the shafts of your attacks against the trusts and corporations

I don’t like monopolies when I see them.

Theodore Roosevelt understood that unregulated monopoly could pose an even greater threat than unrestrained government.

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.

The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts.

The so-called anti-trust laws were intended to prevent the creation of monopolies and to forbid unreasonable profits to those monopolies

The holder of a monopoly is a sinner and offender.

Free prices are the price of freedom.

I am firmly opposed to the Government entering any business the major purpose of which is competition with our citizens.

The citizens of the several States composing the Union are entitled, of right, to buy goods in the State where they are manufactured, or in any other State, without being confronted by an illegal combination whose business extends throughout the whole country, which by the law everywhere is an enemy to the public interests, and which prevents such buying, except at prices arbitrarily fixed by it. I insist that the free course of trade among the States cannot coexist with such combinations.

Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work.

Monopoly of one kind or another, indeed, seems to be the sole engine of the mercantile system.

What is really at stake here is the survival of the kind of economy under which this country has grown great, the free-enterprise system

Markets, when left to themselves, can sort of slip into being just the private property of big businesses and cartels, meeting the needs of some businesses and not the needs of customers.

I talk about economic freedom. I talk about capitalism without fearing the word.

It doesn't really matter who owns things so long there is enough competition, which means lower pricing, better quality goods, more variety, and an economy where the consumers are the big winners.

Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only system that stood for man's right to his own mind, to his work, to his life, to his happiness, to himself.

If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.