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Leonard Read quotes: No one has more than scratched the surface when it comes to understanding and explaining the miracle of the market.

No one has more than scratched the surface when it comes to understanding and explaining the miracle of the market.

Leonard Read quotes: There is no greater dishonesty than man effecting his own private gains at the expense of others.

There is no greater dishonesty than man effecting his own private gains at the expense of others.

Leonard Read quotes: Is it not obvious that the more complex an economy, the more certainly will governmental control of productive effort exert a retarding influence?

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

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

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

Leonard Read quotes: The solution to this problem [welfare-statism] must take a positive form: the restoration of a faith in what free men can accomplish.

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 quotes: Socialistic practices are now so ingrained in our thinking, so customary, so much a part of our mores, that we take them for granted.

Socialistic practices are now so ingrained in our thinking, so customary, so much a part of our mores, that we take them for granted.

Leonard Read quotes: Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.

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

Leonard Read quotes: In market terms, one is entitled to what others will offer in willing exchange. That is all!

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

Leonard Read quotes: There could be no greater error than to conclude that statism caused prosperity.

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

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

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

Leonard Read quotes: The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution.

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