Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could… — 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
The free market opens the way for men to operate at their moral best, and all observation confirms that the poor fare… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
True, the free market ignores the poor precisely as it does not recognize the wealthy - it is 'no respecter of persons' — 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
It [the free market] is an organizational way of doing things, featuring openness, which enables millions of people to cooperate and compete… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
It should be noted that people in the free market rarely bear false witness; integrity is the rule. The morning mile, phone… — 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 Image
There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.' — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
In market terms, one is entitled to what others will offer in willing exchange. That is all! — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth. — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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