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

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

"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…"

"[Erhard said that] a new phase in the development of the German free economy would begin with the transformation of p…"

"[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…"

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