When asked abroad why the United States has become the most prosperous large economy in the world, I respond, with only mild exaggeration, that our forefathers wrote a constitution and set in motion a system of laws that protects individual rights, especially the right to own property.

Another quote →

More quotes by Alan Greenspan

All Alan Greenspan quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Alan Greenspan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.