Lawrence Reed

The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation.

— Lawrence Reed

A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims…

— Lawrence Reed

Marijuana has killed far fewer people than swimming pools; it’s the war against it that does all the violence.

— Lawrence Reed

Where there are love and generosity, there is joy. Where there are sincerity and sacrifice, there is friendship. Where there are harmony…

— Lawrence Reed

On the silver screen, capitalists are usually vilified as greedy and heartless, while statists of every stripe are depicted as selfless, romantic…

— Lawrence Reed

Pessimism is not only unwarranted, it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think the cause is lost, it will be. No…

— Lawrence Reed

Our expensive welfare state is fueled by the destructive notion that 'greed' is when you want to keep your own money but…

— Lawrence Reed

Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very…

— Lawrence Reed

By mandating an even higher minimum, the living wage prices even more people out of work. The people who push these cockamamie…

— Lawrence Reed

Free men are not equal and equal men are not free.

— Lawrence Reed

Money is an invention of the marketplace of exchange, brought into being by traders who discovered that a reliable medium could facilitate…

— Lawrence Reed

Anything short of the discipline and honesty of a true gold coin standard will inevitably self-destruct, consuming our wealth and liberties, and…

— Lawrence Reed

Monetary reform, if it is to be genuine and successful, must sever money and banking from politics. That's why a modern gold…

— Lawrence Reed