Whenever government assumed responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of citizens, the costs of government rise beyond the point where it… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Governments resort to inflation with popular support because the people apparently are naïve enough to believe that they can have their cake… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Under both the welfare state and communism, the responsibility for the welfare, security, and prosperity of the people is presumed to rest… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all. — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Insecurity must follow the transfer of responsibility from self to others, particularly when transferred to arbitrary and capricious government. Genuine security is… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
A fact rarely suspected, let alone understood, is that businessmen are by no means the chief beneficiaries of the free market, private… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
I would like to suggest to you that the extent to which government in America has departed from the original design of… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
I would have government defend the life and property of all citizens equally; protect all willing exchange; suppress and penalize all fraud,… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
The right way is the greatest gratifier of human wishes ever come upon - when allowed to operate. It is as morally… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
I can remember the time when, if we wanted a house or housing, we relied on private enterprise. In fact, Americans built… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct… — Leonard Read Copy Share
There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.' — Leonard Read Copy Share
Whenever government assumed responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of citizens, the costs of government rise beyond the point where it is politically… — Leonard Read Copy Share
The solution to this problem [welfare-statism] must take a positive form: the restoration of a faith in what free men can accomplish. — Leonard Read Copy Share
The libertarian can have no truck with 'left' or 'right' because he regrets any form of authoritarianism - the use of police force to… — Leonard Read Copy Share
Is it not obvious that the more complex an economy, the more certainly will governmental control of productive effort exert a retarding influence? — Leonard Read Copy Share
In market terms, one is entitled to what others will offer in willing exchange. That is all! — Leonard Read Copy Share
Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth. — Leonard Read Copy Share
What precisely is this disease that causes inflation and all these other troubles? It has many popular names, such as socialism, communism, state interventionism,… — Leonard Read Copy Share
The right way is the greatest gratifier of human wishes ever come upon - when allowed to operate. It is as morally sound as… — Leonard Read Copy Share
[S]tatism is but socialized dishonesty; it is feathering the nests of some with feathers coercively plucked from others - on the grand scale. There… — Leonard Read Copy Share
There is really nothing that can be done except by an individual. Only individuals can learn. Only individuals can think creatively. Only individuals can… — Leonard Read Copy Share
Governments resort to inflation with popular support because the people apparently are naïve enough to believe that they can have their cake and eat… — Leonard Read Copy Share
Assume that a surgeon has discovered how to do brain surgery, that he can do only one a month, that 1,000 persons a year… — Leonard Read Copy Share
Such terms as communism, socialism, Fabianism, the welfare state, Nazism, fascism, state interventionism, egalitarianism, the planned economy, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the… — Leonard Read Copy Share
