Defending the Free Market Quotes

“Theocracy is the destruction of human freedom in the name of God. Libertinism is the destruction of moral norms in the name of liberty. Neither will do.”
― Robert Sirico, Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy

“The lesson is plain. Civilizations fail. The reason they fail is also plain. When civilizational virtues are eroded from within, people lose the capacity to defend the good things those habits enabled previous generations to achieve.”
― Robert Sirico, Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy

“Civilizations fail. The reason they fail is also plain. When civilizational virtues are eroded from within, people lose the capacity to defend the good things those habits enabled previous generations to achieve. Think of ancient Greece; or the Roman Empire; or Germany in the 1930s. There are many other examples.”
― Robert Sirico, Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy

“What threatens to bring freedom to an end is that we have forgotten the end of freedom, in the other sense—its aim or purpose.”
― Robert Sirico, Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy