Leonard Read Quotes

• El [S]tatismo no es más que deshonestidad socializada; es emplumar el nido de algunos con plumas arrancadas coercitivamente a otros - a gran escala. No hay ninguna diferencia moral entre el acto de un carterista y el impuesto progresivo sobre la renta o cualquier otro programa social.

  Leonard Leer

  Differences, Liberty, Income

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• Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.

  Leonard Leer

  Creating, Wealth, Socialism

  "Anything That's Peaceful". Book by Leonard Read, 1964.

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• Such terms as communism, socialism, Fabianism, the welfare state, Nazism, fascism, state interventionism, egalitarianism, the planned economy, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the New Frontier are simply different labels for much the same thing.

  Leonard Leer

  Egalitarianism, Labels, Nazism

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• There is really nothing that can be done except by an individual. Only individuals can learn. Only individuals can think creatively. Only individuals can cooperate. Only individuals can combat statism.

  Leonard Leer

  Thinking, Done, Individual

  "Essays on Liberty". Book by Leonard Read, 1954.

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• Governments resort to inflation with popular support because the people apparently are naïve enough to believe that they can have their cake and eat it, too.

  Leonard Leer

  Believe, Government, Cake

  Leonard E. Read (1990). “The freedom philosophy”, Foundation for Economic Education

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• I would have government defend the life and property of all citizens equally; protect all willing exchange; suppress and penalize all fraud, all misrepresentation, all violence, all predatory practices; invoke a common justice under law; and keep the records incidental to these functions. Even this is a bigger assignment than governments, generally, have proven capable of. Let governments do these things and do them well. Leave all else to men in free and creative effort.

  Leonard Leer

  Letting Go, Men, Law

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• There could be no greater error than to conclude that statism caused prosperity.

  Leonard Leer

  Errors, Prosperity, Greater

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• There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax.

  Leonard Leer

  Income, Libertarian, Moral

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• In market terms, one is entitled to what others will offer in willing exchange. That is all!

  Leonard Leer

  Term, Willing, Offers

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• The Constitution was definitely and specifically designed to hobble all people who are so foolish as to think themselves capable of leading others by compulsion. It so functions today to an extent exasperating to the authoritarians - which is why they want to get rid of it.

  Leonard Leer

  Pensar, Gente, Querer

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• The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution.

  Leonard Leer

  Running, People, Liberty

  Leonard E. Read (1990). “The freedom philosophy”, Foundation for Economic Education

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• The advancement of freedom is not a matter of who wields political power over creative actions; rather, it depends upon the disassembling of such power.

  Leonard Leer

  Creative, Political, Liberty

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• The welfare state destroys the market mechanisms - lessens free choice and willing exchange. Simultaneously creating unnatural specializations, it must, granted statism's premise, resort to welfarism; that is, it must assume the responsibility for the people's welfare: their employment, their old age, their income, and the like. As this is done, man loses his wholeness; he is dispossessed of responsibility for self, the very essence of his manhood. The more dependent he becomes, the less dependable!

  Leonard Leer

  Responsibility, Men, Essence

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• Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable type of pressure group.

  Leonard Leer

  Pressure Groups, Political, Orbit

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• ...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds.

  Leonard Leer

  Government, Political, World

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• The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all.

  Leonard Leer

  Government, Justice, Liberty

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• The more complex our economy, the more we should rely on the miraculous, self-adapting processes of men acting freely. No mind of man nor any combination of minds can even envision, let alone intelligently control, the countless human energy exchanges in a simple society, to say nothing of a complex one.

  Leonard Leer

  Simple, Men, Self

  "Excuse Me, Professor: Challenging the Myths of Progressivism". Book by Leonard Read, July 28, 2015.

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• Whenever government assumed responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of citizens, the costs of government rise beyond the point where it is politically expedient to cover them by direct tax levies.

  Leonard Leer

  Responsibility, Government, Citizens

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• Were it necessary to bring a majority into a comprehension of the libertarian philosophy, the cause of liberty would be utterly hopeless. Every significant movement in history has been led by one or just a few individuals with a small minority of energetic supporters.

  Leonard Leer

  Philosophy, Libertarian Party, Liberty

  "How to Advance Liberty" by Leonard Read, mises.org. August 03, 2011.

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• If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase our misfortunes and make them permanent.

  Leonard Leer

  Mean, Poverty, Misery

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• Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct it. How, for instance, can one compare a socialized post office with private postal delivery when the latter has been outlawed?

  Leonard Leer

  Men, Office, Example

  "Excuse Me, Professor: Challenging the Myths of Progressivism". Book by Leonard Read, July 28, 2015.

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• No hay mayor deshonestidad que la del hombre que obtiene sus propios beneficios a costa de los demás.

  Leonard Leer

  Men, Gains, Dishonesty

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• True, the free market ignores the poor precisely as it does not recognize the wealthy - it is 'no respecter of persons'

  Leonard Leer

  Doe, Poor, Free Market

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• The libertarian can have no truck with 'left' or 'right' because he regrets any form of authoritarianism - the use of police force to control the creative life of man.

  Leonard Leer

  Regret, Men, Creative

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• The free market opens the way for men to operate at their moral best, and all observation confirms that the poor fare better under these circumstances than when the way is closed, as it is under socialism.

  Leonard Leer

  Men, Way, Moral

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