"The German economy compared very favourably with the situation in other countries: the average income of workers here…"

"A collectivist-totalitarian economic system, which in the final analysis serves only to glorify and increase the powe…"

"National autonomy in economic matters should not be an obstacle to a free world economic system. But to achieve free …"

"[Erhard] emphasized that the aim of a common market was to free the movement of goods and capital. It did not exclude…"

"[Erhard said that] in the next four years he would fight unrelentingly against all forms of restrictive practices. Th…"

"In a community of free people the freedom of economic activity is an inseparable part of the whole, and only this fre…"

"[Erhard said his] ambition was to drive up the German standard of living until it approximated to that of the United …"

"[Erhard] forecast that this year German exports would reach a volume of 16,000m. marks. He recalled that in 1948, whe…"

"[Erhard said that] no other country had advanced to such a degree as western Germany in the past five years. They cou…"

"As I have said time and again, the focal point of our economy is the individual."