I would have government defend the life and property of all citizens equally; protect all willing exchange; suppress and penalize all fraud, all misr…

- Leonard Read

There is really nothing that can be done except by an individual. Only individuals can learn. Only individuals can think creatively. Only individuals…

- Leonard Read

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 cre…

- Leonard Read

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

- Leonard Read

Such terms as communism, socialism, Fabianism, the welfare state, Nazism, fascism, state interventionism, egalitarianism, the planned economy, the Ne…

- Leonard Read

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

- Leonard Read

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

- Leonard Read

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

- Leonard Read

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

- Leonard Read